Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Roundup damages reduced again


A court award of $289.2 million, reduced to $78.5 million, has been reduced again to $21.5 million by an appeals court in California.

But the court upheld the verdict that glyphosate in Monsanto’s Ranger Pro herbicide caused non-Hodgkins lymphoma in schoolyard groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson.

The 1st District Court of Appeal said there was evidence to support a California jury’s 2018 decision that “Monsanto acted with a conscious disregard for public safety.”

The original San Francisco Superior Court jury found that St. Louis-based Monsanto had purposely ignored warnings and evidence that glyphosate, the active ingredient in its popular Roundup and Ranger Pro products, causes cancer..