Aug 13, 2018 · Video. In a landmark case, a 36-year-old small-town attorney from Orange, Virginia, defeated agrochemical giant Monsanto in court after the weedkiller maker was found guilty and ordered to pay ...
Jan 23, 2020 · Monsanto’s grandiose claims for Roundup and glyphosate include the falsehood that glyphosate targets an enzyme found only in plants but not in pets or people. Monsanto is being sued for this blatantly false advertising. The New York attorney general won a lawsuit against Monsanto in 1996 that made the chemical giant stop making all sorts of false claims …
Sep 18, 2020 · This week, Monsanto, an affiliate of Bayer AG — a German multinational life sciences company, and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world — settled thousands of current U.S....
Apr 23, 2021 · NEWS. Monsanto 'Bought and Paid For' Appeal on Preemption, Plaintiffs Lawyers Say. Plaintiffs attorneys that got Roundup verdicts have accused parent company Bayer of paying its opponent in a ...
It's been estimated that future Roundup claimants might get around $5,000 to $200,000 each under a proposed $2 billion settlement (announced in February 2021 as part of the MDL).
The first three Roundup cancer lawsuits to proceed to trial resulted in a combined $2.424 billion in jury verdicts. Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman is the only law firm in the country to serve on the trial teams for all three of the first Monsanto lawsuits to go before juries.
Most Roundup lawsuits filed to date have been individual lawsuits, but several class-action lawsuits against the company are also pending. Class-action lawsuits are significantly different from individual personal injury lawsuits.
June 24, 2021 - Roundup (Bayer) to pay $10 billion to settle cancer lawsuit - Bayer is facing tens of thousands of claims linking Roundup weedkiller to cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
In order to file a personal injury lawsuit against Bayer/Monsanto or another manufacturer of glyphosate products, you'll almost certainly need to demonstrate that you've been diagnosed with an illness (such as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma) that might be attributable to your exposure to the herbicide.
To date, Monsanto has filed 90 lawsuits against American farmers.
Suffering Roundup users are filing lawsuits against Monsanto, alleging they got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma from the weedkiller. But despite major trial losses, the company maintains that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is not a human carcinogen.
The plaintiff must typically prove the following elements:Monsanto manufactured, distributed or sold Roundup.Monsanto knew or reasonably should have known that Roundup was dangerous or likely to be dangerous when used or misused in an intended or reasonably foreseeable manner.More items...
On June 24, 2020, Bayer announced it had reached a Roundup settlement agreement in principle with five leading firms representing more than 100,000 plaintiffs alleging that they developed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma due to significant exposure to Roundup weedkiller.May 19, 2021
Monsanto was sued in California state court in April 2015 for false advertising . Roundup labeling claims glyphosate targets an enzyme found only in plants but not in people or pets. The lawsuit states this claim is false, and that Monsanto’s carcinogenic glyphosate destroys healthy human gut flora and leads to myriad health problems that include:
More than 40,000 people have filed suit against Monsanto over Roundup. They all allege that exposure to Roundup herbicide caused them or their loved ones to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma or other cancer (s). They charge that Monsanto covered up the risks.
Roundup is an herbicide that kills most living things not genetically engineered to withstand it. Monsanto promotes Roundup-ready corn, soy and other genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on the promise that GMO’s require less herbicide than traditionally-farmed plants (organic farming uses no herbicides).
It is used on countless lawns and gardens, school playgrounds, orchards, parks, and 80% (or so) of corn and soybeans grown in the U.S.
It works by specifically inhibiting an enzyme essential to plant growth. That same enzyme is also essential to the growth of animals, including humans. Monsanto claims that this enzyme is found only in plants but not in animals or humans. This is a blatantly false claim for which Monsanto is being sued in California.
Reporters fired for Exposing Monsanto. Professional new reporters Jane Akre and Steve Wilson were fired from a Florida news station in 1998 after Monsanto threatened their station manager for a story uncovering a cancer link with bovine growth hormone ( rBST) shot into cows to force them to produce more milk.
The New York attorney general won a lawsuit against Monsanto in 1996 that made the chemical giant stop making all sorts of false claims about Roundup, though those false claims remain on Roundup labels in every other state in the country.
Plaintiffs attorneys who reached gargantuan verdicts over Monsanto’s Roundup have accused parent company Bayer of concocting a “pay-to-appeal scheme” that would raise the prospects of a federal appellate ruling in its favor.
The same issue is before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which heard oral arguments Oct. 23 in the appeal of an $80 million Roundup verdict, reached in 2019 but lowered after trial to $25.3 million . That case, brought by Wagstaff and Moore on behalf of Edwin Hardeman, was the first bellwether trial in the multidistrict litigation.
Last year, Bayer agreed to pay nearly $10 billion to settle 75% of about 125,000 Roundup claims, but lawsuits continue to be filed. On Feb. 3, Bayer announced a $2 billion class action settlement designed to resolve future claims.
California jury hits Monsanto with $2 billion judgment in cancer lawsuit. It's the largest payout so far and the third loss in a row for Monsanto in lawsuits alleging Roundup has caused or contributed to cancer.
A California jury has found that a popular weedkiller made by Monsanto likely caused cancer in a husband and wife and ordered the chemical giant to pay more than $2 billion in damages, twice what the plaintiffs' attorney had requested.
The jury found that Roundup was a "substantial factor" in his illness. The new verdict brings the total amount awarded to plaintiffs to more than $2.2 billion. Andrew Blankstein reported from Los Angeles. Andrew Blankstein is an investigative reporter for NBC News.
Monsanto has appealed the decision. In March, a federal jury ordered Monsanto to pay $80 million to Edwin Hardeman, a 70-year-old man with cancer who had used the product for three decades on his 56 acres in Sonoma County, California.
After a five-week trial, the jury awarded $1 billion apiece to the Pilliods in punitive damages, plus another $55 million in damages.
Alva and Alberta Pilliod of Livermore, California, were both diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. They had been using Roundup on residential properties since the 1970s, when Monsanto began to sell the product. The couple, who are both in their 70s, filed suit in state court.
Bayer, which bought Monsanto in 2018, said in a statement that the company is "disappointed with the jury's decision and will appeal the verdict in this case," and that there is a "consensus among leading health regulators worldwide that glyphosate-based products can be used safely and that glyphosate is not carcinogenic.".