Bayer Suffers Second Appellate Defeat With Ninth Circuit Ruling in Roundup Cancer Case
May 14, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A Ninth Circuit panel upheld a federal jury verdict finding the popular weed killer Roundup caused a Bay Area man’s lymphoma, rejecting manufacturer Monsanto’s argument that federal law prevented it from including a warning on its product label.
In 2019, a six-person jury awarded Edwin Hardeman $75 million in punitive damages and $5 million in compensatory damages for past and future pain and suffering, finding years of Roundup use likely caused his non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The federal judge who oversaw the case later reduced the punitive damages award by $50 million, finding it excessive.
This is the second loss on appeal for Bayer AG, which acquired the agrochemical company in a multibillion-dollar merger in 2018. In July 2020, a California appellate court upheld a jury’s verdict that Roundup caused another Bay Area man’s cancer and awarding him $289 million. A third jury verdict is still on appeal in the state’s First Appellate District.
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