Bayer scored another win over Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide after a Missouri jury came out with a defense verdict [November 9].
The trial, in St. Louis County Circuit Court, is the sixth courtroom victory in a row for Bayer, which two years ago agreed to pay $10 billion to resolve an estimated 120,000 Roundup lawsuits alleging its pesticide caused non-Hodgkin lymphoma. But thousands of Roundup cases remain unsettled, leading to a new spate of Roundup trials in Missouri, California and Oregon.
“The jury’s unanimous verdict in favor of the company brings this trial to a successful conclusion and is consistent with the evidence in this case that Roundup does not cause cancer,” Bayer said in a statement.
“While we have great sympathy for the plaintiff in this case, the jury has weighed the evidence from both sides in this case and concluded that Roundup is not responsible for the plaintiff’s injuries,” the statement continued. “We continue to stand behind the safety of Roundup and will confidently defend the safety of our product as well as our good faith actions in any future litigation.”
