Bayer says it is bringing closure to the costly Roundup litigation through settlement deals totaling more than $11 billion, but new Roundup weedkiller cases are still being filed.
Moll, a Chicago-based personal injury attorney, has dozens of lawsuits pending against the former Monsanto Co., all alleging the company’s Roundup weed killers cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and he is now preparing several of those cases for trial.
Moll’s firm is one of a handful that have refused settlement offers made by Monsanto owner Bayer AG, deciding instead to take the fight over the safety of Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicide products back into courtrooms around the country.
Though Bayer has assured investors it is bringing closure to the costly Roundup litigation through settlement deals totaling more than $11 billion, new Roundup cases are still being filed, and notably several are positioned for trial, with the earliest set to start in July.
“We’re going forward,” Moll said. “We’re doing this.”
Moll has lined up many of the same expert witnesses who helped win the three Roundup trials held to date. And he plans to rely heavily on the same internal Monsanto documents that provided shocking revelations of corporate misconduct that led juries to award hefty punitive damages to the plaintiffs in each of those trials.
Trial set for July 19
One case with a trial date looming involves a 70-year-old woman named Donnetta Stephens from Yucaipa, California who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in 2017 and has suffered from numerous health complications amid multiple rounds of chemotherapy. Stephens was recently granted a trial “preference,” meaning her case has been expedited, after her lawyers informed the court that Stephens is “in a perpetual state of pain,” and losing cognition and memory. The case is set for trial July 19 in San Bernardino County Superior Court in California.
Several other cases have either already been granted preference trial dates, or are seeking trial dates, for elderly people and at least one child suffering from NHL the plaintiffs allege was caused by exposure to Roundup products.
“The litigation is not over. It is going to be a continued headache for Bayer and Monsanto,” said Andrew Kirkendall, whose Texas-based firm is helping represent Stephens and other clients seeking speedy trials.
Kirkendall said his firm has lawsuits moving forward to trial in California, Oregon, Missouri, Arkansas and Massachusetts.
“This has the potential to be the next asbestos litigation,” he said, referring to decades of lawsuits brought over asbestos-related health problems.
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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/monsanto-bayer-roundup-litigation/
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Oh what tangled webs we weave . . . Bayer itself has a long and sordid history, and it is now trying to bury Monsanto’s bad reputation under the protective umbrella of a supposedly benign aspirin manufacturer, which has historical ties to I. G. Farben and Nazi Germany.
The kicker here is that RoundUp is still being sold on store shelves. I saw it just the other day at Home Depot. Monsanto was also the manufacturer of the infamous “Agent Orange,” the herbicide used in the Vietnam war and implicated in a lot of combat veterans’ resultant neurological and other problems.
I didn’t know specifically of RoundUp’s connection with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. I suspect this is only the tip of the iceberg.
Isn’t it interesting that the pharmaceutical companies and the agricultural chemical companies are so closely interconnected?
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What I find really distressing, Katherine, is that we are still battling the New Plymouth District Council to get them to stop spraying Roundup in our parks and playgrounds.
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