Bayer AG won a ruling slashing a jury verdict to $25.3 million from $80.3 million in the second case to go to trial over claims that exposure to its Roundup weed killer causes cancer.
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco previously said the $75 million portion of the verdict intended to punish the company was too high based on legal precedent that punitive damages shouldn’t be more than nine times bigger than compensatory damages.
The judge said in an order Monday that while the jury’s decisions to award punitive damages was “reasonable,” the size of the award is ...
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