Bayer, which acquired Monsanto in 2018, has recently broken its winning trial record with a number of jury verdicts against it.

Bayer’s Monsanto was ordered to pay more than $1.5 billion Friday over claims its patented weed-killer, Roundup, was linked to users’ cancer, Bloomberg reported.

James Draeger, Valerie Gunther and Dan Anderson were each awarded a total of $61.1 million in actual damages and $500 million each in punitive damages by jurors in state court in Jefferson City, Missouri.

The three people alleged that their non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas — a type of cancer that begins in your lymphatic system, part of the body’s immune system — were caused by years of using Roundup while gardening.

  • treefrog@lemm.ee
    101·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, I was thinking 1.5b sounded like nothing. But this is two people. So, I’m okay with this.

    • aidan@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 year ago

      I’d like to point out, Alex Jones was sued for $1b for being a dick on the internet.

      • treefrog@lemm.ee
        21·
        1 year ago

        Split between about twenty people. So $50 million each vs $750 million each.

        And I would also like to point out that Alex’s being a dick on the Internet was directly linked to threats of violence made against Sandy Hook families. So his words were far from harmless and far more damaging than your average dick on the Internet.