SAN FRANCISCO: A jury in California on Monday ordered Bayer-owned Monsanto to pay more than $2 billion damages to a couple that sued on grounds the weed killer Roundup caused their cancer, lawyers said. The award was the latest in a series of court defeats for Monsanto over Roundup. The German agro-chemicals and drugs giant finalized the acquisition of the US company Monsanto last year for $63 billion. Just two months after the acquisition was completed, Monsanto lost a case to a school groundskeeper suffering from terminal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Monsanto was initially ordered to pay $289 million to Johnson, before the damages were reduced to USD 78.5 million.

Source: Mint May 14, 2019 08:26 UTC