Posted May 17, 2019
After nearly two days of deliberations, the jury of five women and seven men found that it is more likely than not that Roundup was a significant contributing factor in causing Alva and Alberta Pilliod’s non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The jury awarded the couple $55 million in noneconomic and economic damages and hit Monsanto with $1 billion in punitive damages for each plaintiff. That’s $2.055 billion in total, a sum that doubled what the plaintiffs’ attorney suggested in closing arguments. Read more.