Bayer Hit With $175 Million Award in Roundup Cancer Trial (1)

Bayer AG unit Monsanto was told by a Pennsylvania jury to pay $175 million to a man who blamed his cancer on use of the company’s weedkiller — the first sizable Roundup verdict in four years.

Jurors in state court in Philadelphia on Friday awarded 83-year-old Ernie Caranci $25 million in actual damages and $150 million in punitive damages over his claims that 20 years of using Roundup on his garden caused his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Bayer had won nine Roundup cases in a row until a week ago, when a jury in state court in St. Louis awarded $1.25 million ...