India, March 23 -- Bayer (BAYZF.PK,BAYRY.PK,BYR.L), the German pharmaceutical and life sciences major, has been ordered by a jury in Georgia, U.S., to pay about $2.1 billion to a plaintiff who alleged that its Roundup weedkiller caused cancer.
The verdict includes $65 million in compensatory and $2 billion in punitive damages, according to a statement from plaintiff law firm Arnold & Itkin LLP.
The law firm stated that the plaintiff, John Barnes, developed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) after using Roundup for over two decades at his home in Georgia. Between 1999 and 2019, he frequently purchased the glyphosate-based herbicide from Home Depot stores, unknowingly exposing himself to a carcinogen that Monsanto had falsely marketed as safe. In...