The Media Relations personnel of the law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, PC emailed me at 6:20 PM Friday, August 10 th , the verdict rendered by the jury in the 8-week trial whereby “ the jury found unanimously that Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused Mr. Johnson to develop NHL, and that Monsanto failed to warn of this severe health hazard. Importantly, the jury also found that Monsanto acted with malice, oppression or fraud and should be punished for its conduct.” Furthermore, and here’s the most important part of that decision, the jury decided ordering the agrochemical giant to pay $39.2 million in compensatory damages and $250 million in punitive damages for failing to warn consumers that exposure to Roundup weed killer causes cancer. It seems Bayer bought a “pig-in-a-poke” when it decided to “marry” Monsanto! The above jury award amounts to $289.2 million to be paid to Mr. Dwayne Johnson, who is dying of non-Hodgkin lymphoma attributed to
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