From AgPro:
It’s the largest jury award in the
U.S. so far this year and the eighth-largest ever in a product-defect
claim, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
( Farm Journal )
Bayer
AG was ordered to pay more than $2 billion in damages to a California
couple that claimed they got cancer as a result of using the company’s
Roundup weedkiller for about 30 years.
It’s the largest jury award in the U.S. so far this year and
the eighth-largest ever in a product-defect claim, according to
data compiled by Bloomberg. Bayer has now lost three trials in a
row over claims Roundup causes cancer.
A jury in state court in Oakland, California, issued the
verdict Monday after two other California trials over the herbicide
yielded combined damages of $159 million against the company. Bayer
is appealing those verdicts and vowed to challenge Monday’s as well.
The jury’s decision “conflicts directly with the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency’s interim registration review decision
released just last month, the consensus among leading health
regulators worldwide that glyphosate-based products can be used safely
and that glyphosate is not carcinogenic,” Bayer said in a statement.
The jurors agreed that Alva and Alberta Pilliod’s exposure to Roundup
used for residential landscaping was a “substantial factor” in their
non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The jury awarded damages of about $55 million
for the couple’s medical bills and pain and suffering on top of the
punitive damages....MUCH MORE
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