Bayer Fights String of Roundup Trial Losses Including $2.25B Verdict in Philadelphia

Bayer Fights String of Roundup Trial Losses Including $2.25B Verdict in Philadelphia
Containers of Roundup are displayed on a store shelf in San Francisco on Feb. 24, 2019. Haven Daley/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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PHILADELPHIA—When a Philadelphia jury awarded $2.25 billion in damages this year in a case that linked Roundup to a cable technician’s blood cancer, the verdict became the largest yet in the long-running litigation over the popular Monsanto weed killer.

Corporate parent Bayer had set aside more than $10 billion in 2020 to settle about 125,000 cases, many consolidated in California. And it won a string of nine individual lawsuits that started going to trial in 2021. But the tide changed last year when juries began handing down nine- and 10-figure awards to plaintiffs who had developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma.