Monsanto Co. says it will appeal a $289 million verdict a San Francisco jury ordered it to pay a former groundskeeper who claimed the company’s weed killer contributed to his terminal cancer.
Company spokesman Scott Partridge said Friday that Monsanto sympathizes with Dewayne Johnson and his family. But Partridge said hundreds of scientific studies and government agencies have concluded that its Roundup weed killer doesn’t cause cancer.
The St. Louis-based company is facing about 2,000 similar lawsuits across the country. Dewayne Johnson’s attorney, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., says the San Francisco verdict should bolster the chances of the other lawsuits.
source:UNB
