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Update (July 26): As several legal experts predicted, the $2 billion award for the couple was reduced yesterday to a smaller amount, $86.7 million, after a judge presiding over the case found the punitive portion of the damages to be excessive and unconstitutional. The plaintiffs have yet to formally accept the award, which now consists of around $17 million in compensatory and $69 million in punitive damages, Reuters reports. Bayer has said in a statement that it will appeal for the punitive damages to be struck completely.
A jury in California has ordered global agribusiness Monsanto to pay more than $2 billion to a couple who developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after years of using the company’s weedkiller, Roundup. The verdict—which mandates a payment of $2 billion in punitive damages and a further $55 million in compensatory damages—was delivered on Monday (May 13) and marks the third and ...
