Several juries have found that Roundup was responsible for causing cancer. Yet, according to recent news reports, farmers across the country remain committed to using the weed killer. More than 42,000 plaintiffs are currently pursuing product liability claims against Bayer, the weed killer’s manufacturer, alleging it caused cancer. So far, three Roundup cancer victims…
Monsanto lost in court a third time in defense of their Roundup weed killer, which allegedly causes cancer, according to at least 1,000 lawsuits consolidated in the Northern District of California, and 12,000 others filed elsewhere around the country. The Oakland jury ordered Monsanto to pay more than $2 billion in damages to a couple…
A federal jury in San Francisco awarded 70-year-old Edwin Hardeman of California $80 million after he filed a lawsuit claiming that several years’ worth of exposure to Roundup by Monsanto weed killer on his Sonoma County land greatly contributed to his development of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. The lawsuit alleged that Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer was defective…