Lawyers hired by German chemical giant Bayer found no illegal activity in “watch lists” of hundreds of pro- and anti-pesticide figures kept by its subsidiary Monsanto, the firm said Thursday.
Read moreAlva and Alberta Pilliod, a Livermore couple who attributed their cancer diagnoses to years of Roundup use, will see only a fraction of the $2 billion in punitive damages a jury awarded them in May. A state trial judge cut their award down considerably in an order Thursday to a total of $86.7 million, which breaks down to about $30 million for Alva and $56 million for Alberta.
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A federal judge correctly predicted that $2 billion in punitive damages awarded to a Livermore couple who attributed their cancer to the weed killer Roundup would likely be drastically cut down – though by how much remains to be seen.
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Agrochemical company Monsanto “deserves to be punished” for misleading the public about the safety of its popular Roundup weed killer, a federal judge said in a ruling Monday, but drastically punitive damages awarded to a San Francisco Bay Area man with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Read moreA federal judge will not overturn a jury’s verdict in favor of a Bay Area man who claimed years of using Roundup weed killer caused him to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Read moreA San Francisco Bay Area man awarded $80 million in damages after a jury found agrochemical giant Monsanto liable for failing to warn him about the carcinogenicity of the weed killer Roundup will see that award drastically reduced, a federal judge said Tuesday.
Read moreIn a win for Monsanto following more than $2 billion in cancer-trial losses in California against the company’s popular weed killer Roundup, the federal judge overseeing nationwide litigation over the product said Wednesday Monsanto can choose where upcoming cases will be tried.
Read moreA jury of five women and seven men delivered a devastating blow to agrochemical giant Monsanto on Monday, awarding an elderly couple $1 billion after finding the company failed to warn them about the hazards of the popular weed killer Roundup.
Read moreIn January 2015, Monsanto executive Dan Jenkins wrote an email to a number of his colleagues expressing concern about the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s upcoming review of glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s popular weed killer Roundup.
Read moreAt a hearing Tuesday ahead of closing arguments in the third jury trial over whether Monsanto’s best-selling weed killer Roundup causes cancer, the judge in the case urged lawyers for a couple suing for punitive damages to keep the drama to a minimum.
Read moreAlva Pilliod’s lymphoma likely had no known cause, but his singularly abnormal immune system allowed it to flourish, an oncologist testified Monday in the latest trial over whether Monsanto’s top-selling weed killer Roundup causes cancer.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency reaffirmed Tuesday its previous finding that the mostly widely used herbicide in the country does not cause cancer.
Read moreAn industrial hygienist hired by Monsanto faced off Tuesday against the lead attorney for a couple claiming decades of Roundup use contributed significantly to them both developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Read moreoundup did not cause Alberta Pilliod’s cancer and we’ll likely never know what did, a hematologist from the Moffitt Cancer Center in Florida told jurors Monday at the start of Monsanto’s defense against the woman’s claims that the weed killer made her sick.
Read moreThe federal jury that heard the first bifurcated trial on claims Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup causes cancer found the Bayer AG subsidiary liable for not warning a man of the product’s cancer risks and awarded him $80 million in damages. It also made the way forward in multidistrict litigation a lot more complex.
Read moreA California judge said Thursday that she will likely deny Monsanto’s motion for a decisive victory in a trial where a Livermore couple attribute their cancer to decades of Roundup use.
Read moreWhen she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2015, Alberta Pilliod never thought she would live to celebrate her 75th birthday with her family.
Read moreThe maker of the world’s most popular herbicide could have warned the public about possible cancer risks, but chose not to, a controversial expert witness in a trial over a couple’s claims that Roundup caused their cancers testified Wednesday.
Read moreAs the trial over the world’s most widely used herbicide and its connection to a California couple’s cancer stretches into its third week, their attorney showed the jury more unsealed records showing a cozy relationship between the agrochemical company and U.S. regulators.
Read moreMonsanto says it wasn’t concerned about early epidemiological studies showing a possible link between the active compound in Roundup and cancer, but unsealed documents and emails paint a different picture.
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