Chemicals giant Bayer AG won’t appeal a $20.5 million jury verdict against it over Roundup, a weedkiller containing glyphosate whose use a California school groundskeeper said gave him cancer…
Married Couple Asks for $1B in Damages in Roundup Trial…
In 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. “IARC- they are sending delegates (trying to get names) that are knowledgeable re- gly from EDSP […]
Federal Jury Finds Roundup Caused Man’s Cancer…
A federal jury on Tuesday unanimously found that Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer caused a California man’s cancer, advancing his high-stakes San Francisco trial to a second phase to decide whether the agrochemical company is liable for his illness and how much it might owe for selling him a carcinogenic product. The six-person jury found plaintiff […]
Monsanto Rests Its Case in Roundup Cancer Trial…
A Chicago oncologist suggested Friday that a groundskeeper’s aggressive lymphoma was inherited and not caused by Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer, in a California jury trial over the herbicide’s alleged carcinogenicity. Although Rush University’s Timothy Kuzel didn’t directly call the man’s non-Hodgkin lymphoma an inherited disease, he testified about various emerging treatments grounded in the theory […]
Yelling Breaks Out During Roundup Cancer Link Trial…
In a bid to discredit a Columbia University cancer expert who says Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer is carcinogenic, lawyers for the agrichemical giant accused him on Wednesday of lying under oath about the purported link between Roundup and cancer, in a contentious California jury trial over whether the weed killer caused a Bay Area man’s […]