ABC: Monsanto ordered to pay $289 million in damages to man who gets terminal cancer from Monsanto’s Roundup, his lawyer RFK Jr thrilled!

in #news6 years ago

By Erin Elizabeth

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We are thrilled to report that on Friday a San Francisco jury ordered Monsanto to pay $289.2 million to former school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson, currently dying of cancer, because the company’s popular weed killer Roundup had contributed to his disease. Johnson’s lawsuit is the first to go to trial- among hundreds filed in state and federal courts – accusing Roundup of causing non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

See the verdict read in its entirety in the video below.

Jurors agreed that the product contributed to Johnson’s cancer and that the company should have provided a label warning of the potential health hazard. Johnson’s attorneys sought and won $39 million in compensatory damages and $250 million of the $373 million they wanted in punitive damages.

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