Jury Awards $289M To Cancer Victim In Bellwether Trial Against Monsanto, Roundup

SAN FRANCISCO - A California jury on Aug. 10 found that Monsanto Co. acted with malice regarding its failure to warn of the damages associated with glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, and awarded $289,254,882.32 in damages in the bellwether case of a man who said his repeated exposure to the herbicide caused his cancer (DeWayne Johnson v. Monsanto Company, No. CGC 16550128, Calif. Super., San Francisco Co.).
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