The verdict is the sixth by a Philadelphia jury that considered a Roundup case, and the fourth that went against Monsanto.
A bottle of Bayer AG Roundup brand weedkiller concentrate is arranged for a photograph in a garden shed in Princeton, Ill., on March 28, 2019.A Philadelphia jury delivered a $78 million verdict Thursday against agricultural giant Monsanto, finding that the company’s weed killer, Roundup, was a reason an Abington man developed blood cancer.
“When a company fails to tell the truth about their products, and people get sick and die, the company needs to be held accountable,” he told the jury in his opening statement on the first day of the trial mid-September. The jurors reached a verdict after less than three hours of deliberations Thursday afternoon, concluding the nearly monthlong trial.
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