Dole Food Company Inc (NYSE: DOLE) has announced the signing of a definitive settlement agreement with the Provost & Umphrey Law Firm LLP. Full implementation of this agreement will bring to an end ...

A French appeal court Tuesday refused to enforce compensation for Nicaraguan plantation workers left sick or sterile after working with a noxious pesticide, over what it called “disproportionate” ...

Tens of thousands of former banana workers say they were made sterile by a pesticide used by US companies on plantations in Latin America in the 1970s. The United States restricted and then banned its ...

Chinandega, Nicaragua — THE people crammed into the stifling basketball gym. They filled the court, lined the walls and tumbled beyond the doors onto the sun-blistered streets. They had gathered to ...

A jury Thursday found that American food giant Dole should pay $2.5 million in punitive damages to five workers who claimed they were made sterile by use of a pesticide on Nicaraguan banana ...

A couple of weeks ago a judge in Los Angeles threw out a pair of lawsuits against Dole Food Co. involving Nicaraguan banana workers who claimed they suffered health problems because of the chemical ...

A Los Angeles jury on Monday awarded $3.2 million to six Nicaraguan farmworkers who had sued Dole Food Co. Inc., arguing they had been rendered sterile some three decades ago by the international ...

Traces of two soil fumigants used in old pineapple farming operations were detected in a private Haiku water system — at levels well within federal and state safe drinking water standards — the state ...