Bayer Gets $332 Million Roundup Verdict Slashed by More Than 90%

Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit persuaded a California judge to slash by more than 90% a $332 million jury award to a former land surveyor who blamed his cancer on the company’s Roundup weedkiller.

Judge Kevin Enright in San Diego rejected Monsanto’s bid for a new trial in Michael Dennis’ lawsuit but agreed to reduce the verdict to $28 million.

“Plaintiff’s award of $325 million in punitive damages violates due process by lacking a ‘reasonable relationship’ to the $7 million in compensatory damages awarded and exceeds the constitutional threshold” laid out by the US Supreme Court, Enright wrote in his ...