After less than two full days of deliberations, a California jury
ordered Monsanto to pay just over $2 billion in punitive and
compensatory damages to a married couple who both developed non-Hodgkin
lymphoma they say was caused by their many years of using Roundup
products.
After listening to 17 days of trial testimony, jurors said Monsanto
must pay $1 billion to Alberta Pilliod, who was diagnosed with
non-Hodgkin lymphoma brain cancer in 2015, and another $1 billion to
her husband Alva Pilliod, who was diagnosed in 2011 with non-Hodgkin
lymphoma that spread from his bones to his pelvis and spine. The couple,
who are both in their 70s, started using Roundup in the 1970s and
continued using the herbicide until only a few years ago. The jury also
awarded the couple a total of $55 million in damages for past and future
medical bills and other losses.
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