$2B Roundup Verdict Slashed To $87M
$2B Roundup Verdict Slashed To $87M
Introduction
On Thursday, a California state judge reduced a couple's $2.055 billion jury verdict to $86.7 million in one of the cases that went to trial over Monsanto's Roundup lawsuit.
The initial verdict was given by a jury of five women and seven men in California in favor of a couple who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma on May 13. Bayer had requested U.S. District Judge Winifred Y. Smith to reduce the $2 billion Roundup verdict stating that the plaintiffs failed to prove Roundup was the cause of their cancers due to lack of supporting evidence.
Judge Smith ruled the jury’s billion-dollar punitive damages awards as unconstitutionally large but rejected Bayer’s request to strike it out completely. She reduced the punitive award of $2 billion to around $69 million, and the compensatory damages were cut to roughly $17 million from $55 million. She also approved Monsanto's bid for a new trial, unless the couple agrees to accept the recent verdict. In a statement, Bayer said it still has plans to appeal on multiple grounds.
Recently, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria reduced an $80M Roundup verdict to $25 million against Bayer after finding that the punitive damages component of $75 million awarded to a plaintiff was unreasonably high.
There are more than 15,000 Roundup lawsuits consolidated under multidistrict litigation (MDL No. 2741; In Re: Roundup Products Liability Litigation) in the Northern District of California, presided by U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria.
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