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Monsanto ordered to pay $289 million in California Roundup cancer trial
A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company's glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused him cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages.
The case of school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson was the first lawsuit alleging glyphosate causes cancer to go to trial. Monsanto, a unit of Bayer AG following a $62.5 billion acquisition by the German conglomerate, faces more than 5,000 similar lawsuits across the United States.
The jury at San Francisco's Superior Court of California deliberated for three days before finding that Monsanto had failed to warn Johnson and other consumers of the cancer risks posed by its weed killers.
It awarded $39 million in compensatory and $250 million in punitive damages.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/10/monsanto-ordered-to-pay-289m-in-california-roundup-cancer-trial.html
Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million to Man Who Claimed Glyphosate Caused His Cancer
Monsanto ordered to pay $289m damages in Roundup cancer trial
Chemical giant Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289m (£226m) damages to a man who claimed herbicides containing glyphosate had caused his cancer.
In a landmark case, a Californian jury found that Monsanto knew its Roundup and RangerPro weedkillers were dangerous and failed to warn consumers. It's the first lawsuit to go to trial alleging a glyphosate link to cancer.
Monsanto denies that glyphosate causes cancer and says it intends to appeal against the ruling. "The jury got it wrong," vice-president Scott Partridge said outside the courthouse in San Francisco.
The claimant in the case, groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson, is among more than 5,000 similar plaintiffs across the US.
Monsanto? Never heard of it. Did you mean Bayer AG?
Previously: Cancer Hazard vs. Risk - Glyphosate
Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link
Monsanto Cancer Trial Begins in San Francisco
Related: Glyphosate Linked to Liver Damage
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 13 2018, @12:51AM (5 children)
I know at least one counter example, a friend I'd known for 30 years died of non-Hodgkins lymphoma (a blood cancer) a few years ago, age 72. He was feeling a little weak one winter and went in for a checkup, was quickly referred to an oncologist who gave him 6 weeks to live. Does that sound like a slowly developing cancer? He was fine the year before, very strong and coordinated, still working out with his life-long judo buddies.
Some research indicated that there was minimal hope of life extension by chemo, and the treatments were extremely painful. Instead of chemo he decided to just keep living his life using medical marijuana for pain (he was in CA where it was available) which was very effective. He lasted 18 months, long enough to see his first grand child born.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday August 13 2018, @04:11AM (4 children)
Well, it sounds like cancer. Slow or fast remains unknown since you're not giving us much information by which to judge the case.
~78 weeks untreated is significantly in excess of the 6 weeks treated. So the oncologist would have been wrong by a great deal. And the cancer would have been slower than you presented it as.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 13 2018, @07:41AM (3 children)
No, that could be right. If you have the chemo it will kill you in six weeks, if you wait for the cancer, it takes eighteen months.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday August 13 2018, @09:10AM (1 child)
It took three weeks for my medical clinic to schedule the appointment for my referral for a biopsy. Not three weeks waiting for a biopsy - three weeks waiting for the _referral_.
Now I'm waiting for my biopsy to be scheduled.
The "mass" on my kidney - that means it's larger than two centimetres - turned up in a CT scan after I went to the ER completely convinced I had Salmonella from eating soft-boiled eggs. (It wasn't Salmonella.)
The ER doc quite cheerfully assured me that "It's not going to kill you. They'll just take out your kidney."
Real Soon Now, I'm certain.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 13 2018, @06:48PM
have you looked into the claims about metformin?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday August 14 2018, @08:56AM
And it could also be very wrong.