Non-Hodgkin lymphoma

July 26, 2019 - 7:59 am

Judge Reduces $2B Award In Monsanto Roundup Case To $86.7M

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California judge has upheld a jury's verdict that Monsanto's Roundup herbicide caused cancer in a couple but reduced damages from $2 billion to $86.7 million. The San Francisco Chronicle reports the Alameda County judge ruled Thursday that evidence supports the...
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July 15, 2019 - 4:40 pm

US Judge Slashes $80 Million Award In Monsanto Cancer Case

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. judge lowered a jury's damage award from $80 million to $25 million for a California cancer victim who used Monsanto's Roundup weed-killer. The San Francisco Chronicle reports Monday that U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said he was required to reduce the punitive...
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June 24, 2019 - 4:26 am

Former Missouri Football Coach Pinkel Says Cancer Returned

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Former Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel says he is being treated for cancer again. Pinkel told ABC17 TV in Columbia Saturday that he had treatment last month after his cancer came out of remission for the first time in four years. Pinkel retired after the 2015 season after...
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FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2019, file photo, containers of Roundup are displayed on a store shelf in San Francisco. A Northern California jury ordered agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. to pay a combined $2.05 billion to a couple who claimed the company's popular weed killer Roundup Ready caused their cancers. The Oakland jury on Monday, May 13, 2019, delivered Monsanto's third such loss in California since August. Alva and Alberta Pilliod claimed they used Roundup for more than 30 years to landscape. They were both diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Monsanto owner Bayer said it would appeal. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)
May 13, 2019 - 7:41 pm

Jury: Monsanto To Pay $2 Billion In Weed Killer Cancer Case

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A jury on Monday ordered agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. to pay a combined $2.055 billion to a couple claiming that the company's popular weed killer Roundup Ready caused their cancers. The jury's verdict is the third such courtroom loss for Monsanto in California since August...
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Edwin Hardeman, right, leaves a federal courthouse with his wife Mary in San Francisco, Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. A jury in federal court in San Francisco will decide whether Roundup weed killer caused Hardeman's cancer in a trial that started Monday that plaintiffs' attorneys say could help determine the fate of hundreds of similar lawsuits. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
February 25, 2019 - 7:04 pm

High-Stakes Trial Starts In Roundup Weed Killer Cancer Claim

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A jury in federal court in San Francisco will decide whether Roundup weed killer caused a California man's cancer in a trial starting Monday that plaintiffs' attorneys say could help determine the fate of hundreds of similar lawsuits. Edwin Hardeman, 70, is the second plaintiff...
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FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2018 file photo, plaintiff DeWayne Johnson, a school groundskeeper who says Roundup weed-killer caused his cancer, leaves a courtroom in San Francisco. Agribusiness giant Monsanto is appealing a $78 million verdict in favor of a dying California man who said the company's widely used Roundup weed killer was a major factor in his cancer. The company filed a notice of appeal Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018, in San Francisco Superior Court challenging the August jury verdict in favor of Johnson. (AP Photo/Paul Elias, File)
November 20, 2018 - 5:20 pm

Monsanto Appeals $78M Verdict In California Weed Killer Suit

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Agribusiness giant Monsanto on Tuesday appealed a $78 million verdict in favor of a dying California man who said the company's widely used Roundup weed killer was a major factor in his cancer. The company filed a notice of appeal in San Francisco Superior Court challenging a...
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September 19, 2018 - 10:42 am

Monsanto Asks Judge To Throw Out $289M Award In Cancer Suit

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Agribusiness company Monsanto is asking a San Francisco judge to throw out a jury's $289 million award to a former school groundskeeper who said the company's Roundup weed killer left him dying of cancer. Attorneys for Monsanto said in court documents filed late Tuesday that...
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FILE - In this July, 9, 2018, file photo, plaintiff DeWayne Johnson looks up during a brief break as the Monsanto trial in San Francisco. Monsanto is being accused of hiding the dangers of its popular Roundup products. A San Francisco jury on Friday, Aug. 10, 2018, ordered agribusiness giant Monsanto to pay $289 million to a former school groundskeeper dying of cancer, saying the company's popular Roundup weed killer contributed to his disease. The lawsuit brought by Johnson was the first to go to trial among hundreds filed in state and federal courts saying Roundup causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which Monsanto denies. (Josh Edelson/Pool Photo via AP, File)
August 11, 2018 - 2:45 am

Jury Awards $289M To Man Who Blames Roundup For Cancer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A jury's $289 million award to a former school groundskeeper who said Monsanto's Roundup left him dying of cancer will bolster thousands of pending cases and open the door for countless people who blame their suffering on the weed killer, the man's lawyers said. "I'm glad to be...
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August 10, 2018 - 4:43 pm

The Latest: Monsanto To Appeal $289 Million Verdict

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on jury $289 million verdict against Monsanto (all times local): 4:45 p.m. Monsanto Co. says it will appeal a $289 million verdict a San Francisco jury ordered it to pay a former groundskeeper who claimed the company's weed killer contributed to his terminal cancer...
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August 10, 2018 - 4:00 pm

Jury Backs Man Who Claims Roundup Weed Killer Caused Cancer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco jury on Friday ordered agribusiness giant Monsanto to pay $289 million to a former school groundskeeper dying of cancer, saying the company's popular Roundup weed killer contributed to his disease. The lawsuit brought by Dewayne Johnson was the first to go to...
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