Bayer’s Roundup Award of $80 Million Will Probably Be Cut (2)

A federal judge said he’ll probably reduce—but not throw out entirely—an $80 million jury verdict against Bayer AG in the second case to go to trial over claims the company’s Roundup herbicide causes cancer.

U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said at a hearing July 2 in San Francisco that part of the damages awarded to a California man for his pain and suffering may have been miscalculated and that the $75 million portion of the verdict intended to punish the company may be too high. Punitive damages aren’t supposed to be more than nine times bigger than compensatory damages, he ...