Roundup weed killer cancer lawsuits keep mounting as Pennsylvania man is awarded $78 million

A Pennsylvania man was awarded $78 cardinal aft filing a suit saying helium developed crab from utilizing the weed slayer Roundup. 

William Melissen, 51, said helium was diagnosed successful 2020 with a humor crab called Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and a benignant of leukemia, which helium argued was due to the fact that of his vulnerability to chemicals successful the weed killer, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

It's the latest successful a drawstring of lawsuits against the institution that's already reached astir $11 cardinal successful settlements truthful far, and thousands of much lawsuits are pending.

Melissen claims helium utilized the merchandise often for astir 30 years betwixt 1992 and 2020. He sued cultivation elephantine Monsanto, which makes Roundup, and its German genitor company, Bayer, successful 2021.

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William Melissen, 51, was awarded $78 cardinal aft filing a suit saying helium developed crab from utilizing the weed slayer Roundup. (Getty Images)

A Philadelphia assemblage ruled connected Thursday that the man's crab was caused by Glyphosate, which is the cardinal constituent successful Roundup. The assemblage awarded him $3 cardinal dollars successful compensatory damages and $75 cardinal successful punitive damages.

Monsanto said successful a connection that it disagrees with the jury's verdict and that grounds does not enactment the assertion that Roundup causes cancer. The institution besides said that proceedings errors provided the institution with beardown grounds for appeal.

The alleged errors see that the lawsuit was not dismissed aft three judges connected the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled successful August that Pennsylvania authorities instrumentality cannot necessitate a much expansive pesticide informing statement than the 1 approved by the Environmental Protection Agency.

William Melissen said helium was diagnosed successful 2020 with a humor crab called Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. (Getty Images)

During the trial, Monsanto's attorney, Bart Williams, presented to the assemblage transcripts from grounds by Melissen and his treating doc showing that his cancer is successful remission, and that helium was treated with a five-day circular of chemotherapy.

Melissen's suit is 1 of thousands of cases nationally successful which radical who developed crab impeach Monsanto of failing to see capable warnings astir its weed slayer product.

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A Philadelphia assemblage ruled that the man's crab was caused by Glyphosate, which is the cardinal constituent successful Roundup. (Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Monsanto has reached settlements successful astir 100,000 Roundup lawsuits successful which it paid astir $11 billion. Monsanto estimates that 54,000 progressive Roundup lawsuits inactive remain.

"This is 1 much assemblage that recognized the outrageous behaviour of Monsanto for 50 years," Melissen's lawyer Tom Kline told the Philadelphia Inquirer aft Thursday's verdict.