Chiquita Wins Trial Reprieve as It Appeals $38 Million Verdict

Chiquita’s fight to overturn a $38.3 million wrongful death verdict won the company breathing room and leverage with a federal judge pausing a July trial while the company appeals the landmark jury award.

Earlier this month, the fruit giant suffered a historic loss, becoming the first US company to lose a jury verdict over human rights violations. Plaintiffs were set for a second bellwether trial next month until Judge Kenneth A. Marra of the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida applied the breaks, indefinitely postponing the trial Monday.

The ruling releases leverage plaintiffs lawyers had to ...