Bayer Ordered to Pay $175 Million in Newest Roundup Most cancers Trial

A Philadelphia jury on Friday discovered Bayer AG liable in a case introduced by a retired restaurant proprietor who claimed his most cancers was as a result of publicity to the corporate’s Roundup weed killer, and ordered Bayer to pay him $175 million in damages, the man’s legal professionals mentioned.

The decision, for retired restaurant proprietor Ernest Caranci, consists of $25 million in compensatory damages and $150 million in punitive damages.

A Bayer spokesperson mentioned in an announcement that the corporate disagreed with the decision and was “assured we will get this unfounded verdict overturned and the extreme injury awards lowered by way of our enchantment.”

Caranci’s legal professionals mentioned in a joint assertion that they had been happy with the decision.

Caranci had alleged that he developed non-Hodgkins lymphoma because of utilizing Roundup in his backyard for years.

Final week, the corporate was hit with a $1.25 million verdict in a separate Roundup trial. Earlier than that, it had received 9 consecutive trials over related claims.

Roundup-related lawsuits have dogged Bayer because it acquired the model as a part of its $63 billion buy of agricultural seeds and pesticides maker Monsanto Co in 2018.

The German conglomerate has mentioned that many years of research have proven Roundup and its energetic ingredient, glyphosate, are secure for human use.

Bayer settled most Roundup claims towards it in 2020 for as much as $10.9 billion, however nonetheless faces near 40,000 Roundup-related instances.

It has gone to the U.S. Supreme Courtroom unsuccessfully, in an effort to problem plaintiffs’ potential to sue underneath state regulation.