A Philadelphia jury on Friday hit the makers of weedkiller Roundup with an astronomical $2 billion punitive damages verdict, along with $250 million in compensatory damages.
Friday’s result comes after two previous Philadelphia juries hit Bayer AG unit Monsanto with separate $3.5 million and $175 million verdicts in the mass tort. Thomas R. Kline, who represents McKivison, said the award was likely the largest single-plaintiff verdict in any Roundup case nationwide:
“It was a strong and decisive and unanimous declaration by a jury that had heard three weeks of damning testimony about some of the most egregious corporate misconduct in American history”
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