(Natural News)—Three former users of Roundup weed killer have won more than $1.5 billion in a judgment against Monsanto, now a unit of Bayer AG, that a Missouri jury says must pay its victims for the glyphosate-based herbicide giving them cancer.
Jurors in state court in Jefferson City awarded James Draeger, Valerie Gunther and Dan Anderson a total of $61.1 million in actual damages along with another $500 million each in punitive damages over claims that using Roundup on their lawns and gardens caused them to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The suit is one of many in recent days in which juries have ruled against Monsanto over claims concerning the carcinogenic properties of its Roundup formula. This latest suit is one of the largest to be handed down against a U.S.-based corporate defendant this year.
(Related: In 2021, a court ruled that Monsanto showed “willful” disregard for human safety by selling cancer-causing glyphosate.)
Will Monsanto survive the litigatory pressure?
Though Monsanto has won other similar such cases in the past, the fact that it lost this big one along with numerous others recently, has caused speculation that the now-German-owned drug and agriculture chemical company may need to alter its legal strategy.
The jury, based in Cole County, Mo., ruled that Monsanto is liable for claims of negligence, design defects and failing to warn plaintiffs of the potential health damages of using Roundup, the primary active ingredient of which is glyphosate.
Each of the three plaintiffs was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma that is said to have been caused by the simple use of Roundup on their family properties. The weed killer is highly toxic, we now know, and Monsanto is known for hiding and covering up the damning science against its products.
Monsanto is appealing the ruling, which could end up resulting in reduced punitive damages. It all depends on what happens and whether or not the case makes it to the Supreme Court, which reportedly will not allow punitive damages to be this high based on court guidance.
Bayer, which purchased Monsanto a few years back, continues to claim that decades of studies support the safe use of Roundup.
The case marks the fourth straight loss for Bayer in court this year. Union Investment, one of Bayer’s top 10 shareholders, recently called on the company to try to engage more directly with plaintiffs to settle cases rather than see them through to court.
Meanwhile, the plaintiffs are celebrating the victory, as is their lawyer, Bart Rankin, who said in a statement that this is just the first case among many to be won on behalf of thousands of plaintiffs all across the country.
In many ways, Monsanto has turned out to be a toxic asset for Bayer, which everyone cringed at when the company took over the chemical giant. With so much evidence floating around out there about the dangers of glyphosate, it is almost shocking that Bayer made the decision to buy at all.
Nevertheless, suits against Bayer continue to flood the courts, and the company has said in a recent statement that it plans to present stronger arguments in the appeal that it says will overturn the judgment.
“It said in the recent trials that have gone against the company, courts have improperly permitted plaintiffs to misrepresent the European Union’s renewal process for glyphosate and the safety assessment by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,” Reuters reported about the matter.
Last week, the EU Commission said it would renew approval for glyphosate based on the safety assessments of the European Food Agency and European Chemicals Agency following the failure of EU member states to provide a clear opinion one way or another about the herbicide’s continued use.
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I hope you leftists like hoeing weeds. Because when weed killers stop being made, that is what you all will be doing 8 to 12 hours EVERY day if you want to eat.. Enjoy.
We live in an age of MIRACLES. Miracles give leftists TIME to bitch about every miracle given to them. These miracles are going away. Everyone is going to hate hoeing their crops and losing crops to insects, but that is the life leftists are aspiring to.
The left is going to get its shooting civil war. They will rue their war on D-Day+1, but then, it is too late and half the world will perish, before sanity is restored.
I don’t hoe weeds. I plant weeds to cover bare soil. Some of the weeds I plant are glyphosate-resistent and produce huge amounts of seeds – like amaranth. I take the seeds and sow them in fields planted with GMO, glyphosate- drenched corn to torment industrial agriculturists. I use compost and mulch to enrich ground laid bare by toxic chemicals like glyphosate and restore the microorganisms that are the basis of soil fertility and plant immunity to pests. I hope Monsatan is bankrupted and put out of business. The sooner the better.
Jeez louise. Nothing kills weeds and grasses like glysophate. I cannot imagine hoeing 20 acres of weeds let alone thousands of acres where it needs to be used to control noxious spreading weeds. It would take hundreds of couunty employees to control roadway noxious weeds. If used properly with the correct PPE’s there is nothing better than glysophate. Next target…2-4d.
It does explain why Monsanto wants Ukraine.
Hmm, I’ve been raising crops for 25 years and haven’t had to use herbicides (we use vinegar) or pesticides (bt and companion crops). Never been hungry.
The thought has crossed my mind to use chems for ease of production, but the negative outweighs the positive.
a BS lawsuit. Correlation is NOT causation! Also, lab rats are not good analogs for humans. This was just another bogus lawsuit lottery game.
“Did you get a hangnail after using Roundup? Then call our number immediately. You might be getting tens of thousands of dollars in our lawsuit against Monsanto.”
A resounding victory for litigious greed and innumerate, illiterate, luddite stupidity.
The only ones that win in this case is the Trial lawyers who will get 50-75 percent of the take. I find it interesting that trial lawyers just won a case against Real Estate agents and part of their case was that Real Estate agents are greedy for splitting 6% of the cost for doing all the work they do for their clients. The Lawyers say getting 3 percent is greedy, but they REALLY REALLY deserve that 50 to 75%.
They are vile creatures.