Bayer AG on Monday was ordered by a California jury to pay $2 billion to a couple who say they were diagnosed with cancer after using the company's weedkiller Roundup.
Bayer AG on Monday was ordered by a Northern California jury to pay more than $2 billion to a couple who say they were diagnosed with cancer after using the company's glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup.The jury said the company's product did not properly warn of its cancer risk.
Bottles of Roundup weed killer move along the production line at the herbicide manufacturing facility operated by Monsanto.on Monday was ordered by a Northern California jury to pay more than $2 billion to a couple who say they were diagnosed with cancer after using the company's glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup.
The San Francisco Superior Court in Oakland said the company had to pay the plaintiffs, Alva and Alberta Pilliod, the damages after they contracted non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Alva Pilliod was awarded a total of $1.37 billion, while his wife Alberta was granted $1.18 billion.This is the third lawsuit the company has lost related to claims that Roundup causes cancer. Bayer paid $159 million in damages in the first two cases. The company said it would appeal both verdicts.
Roundup is a herbicide produced by Monsanto, which Bayer acquired last year for $63 billion. The company has that its product causes cancer, saying that decades of studies and regulatory evaluations have shown the weedkiller to be safe for use.--Reuters contributed to this report.
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