Bayer Hit With $332 Million Roundup-Cancer Verdict by Jury (3)

Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit was ordered by a California jury to pay $332 million to a former land surveyor who blamed his cancer on his use of the company’s controversial Roundup weedkiller – the third trial loss this month for the company.

Jurors in state court in San Diego on Tuesday awarded Michael Dennis, 57, a total of $7 million in actual damages and $325 million in punitive damages over his claims 35 years of using Roundup on his lawns and gardens caused his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Until this month, Bayer had won nine Roundup cases in a row. The ...