Mar 28, 2019 · This second trial was the first in federal court against Monsanto, which also lost the first state court trial over Roundup last summer, in a $289 million verdict later reduced to $78.5 million. “A jury has spoken twice after hearing evidence from both sides,” said attorney David Matthews , whose law firm is handling Roundup lawsuits against Monsanto.
Aug 17, 2018 · THE MILLER FIRM WINS HISTORIC $289 MILLION VERDICT AGAINST MONSANTO IN THE FIRST ROUNDUP CASE DECIDED BY A JURY. August 17, 2018 | Blog, Personal Injury, Round Up. On August 10, 2018, a San Francisco jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of Lee Johnson finding that: Monsanto knew or should have known that its weed-killer …
May 13, 2019 · A jury in Oakland, California, has awarded a couple $2 billion in punitive damages after concluding that sustained exposure to Monsanto Co.'s popular Roundup weed killer led to their cancer diagnoses.
May 14, 2019 · That verdict is being appealed. The Pilliods’ lawyer, R. Brent Wisner, argued in court that a billion-dollar judgment would send a message to the chemical giant. He based the amount of punitive ...
(March 28, 2019) A California jury yesterday ordered Monsanto to pay more than $80 million to a man who developed non-Hodgkins lymphoma after using Roundup weedkiller poison. It was the second of two trials which Monsanto has now lost over its best-known product.
Monsanto’s attorneys argued that glyphosate, Roundup’s only active ingredient listed on the product, is the most studied pesticide in the world and no health organizations or regulatory body had ever found glyphosate could cause cancer, until recently.
On August 10, 2018, a San Francisco jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of Lee Johnson finding that: Monsanto knew or should have known that its weed-killer Roundup can cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma ( NHL); Monsanto failed to adequately warn Mr. Johnson of this risk, and Mr. Johnson’s cancer was caused by his exposure to Roundup.
After three days of deliberation, the jury ordered Monsanto to pay $39.2 million in compensatory damages and $250 million in punitive damages. Under California law, Lee’s case was expedited to trial due to his aggressive cancer.
Just yesterday, the CEO of Bayer, the company that just purchased Monsanto, stated that “a verdict by one jury, in one case, does not change the scientific fact and the conclusions of regulators that glyphosate does not cause cancer.”.
May 13, 2019. A jury in Oakland, Calif., ordered Monsanto on Monday to pay a couple more than $2 billion in damages after finding that its Roundup weed killer caused their cancer — the third jury to conclude that the company failed to warn consumers of its flagship product’s dangers.
The jury, in state court in Alameda County, reached its verdict two months after a federal jury in San Francisco awarded $80 million to a man who claimed that Roundup had caused his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. In August, a state court in San Francisco found that Roundup had caused ...
The active ingredient in the herbicide, glyphosate, is the world’s most widely used weed killer. Bayer has repeatedly declared that the chemical is safe, saying health regulators worldwide have come to the same conclusion.
Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency issued an interim review that said the agency “continues to find that there are no risks to public health when glyphosate is used in accordance with its current label and that glyphosate is not a carcinogen .”.
Monsanto ordered to pay $289 million in world's first Roundup cancer trial. By Tina Bellon. 3 Min Read. (Reuters) - A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages. ...
(Reuters) - A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages. The case of school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson was the first lawsuit to go ...
(Reuters) - A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages.
Brent Wisner, a lawyer for Johnson, in a statement said jurors for the first time had seen internal company documents “proving that Monsanto has known for decades that glyphosate and specifically Roundup could cause cancer.”. He called on Monsanto to “put consumer safety first over profits.”.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in September 2017 concluded a decades-long assessment of glyphosate risks and found the chemical not likely carcinoge nic to humans. But the World Health Organization’s cancer arm in 2015 classified glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”.
The jury also concluded that Monsanto filed to adequately warn of the danger or instruct on the safe use of Roundup and that a reasonable manufacturer, distributor, or seller under the same of similar circumstances would have warned of the danger or instructed of the safe use of Roundup.
That given the extensive body of scientific research and the international consensus among leading health regulators that glyphosate is not carcinogenic, Monsanto had no duty, or factual basis to warn about NHL, and that the product was approved as one that can be used safely as directed.
Claim of Design Defect: The jury concluded that Roundup failed to perform as safely as an ordinary consumer would have expected when used or misused in an intended or reasonably foreseeable fashion. The jury also determined that the design of Roundup was a substantial factor in causing harm to Alva and Alberta Pilliod.