Monsanto Hit With $289 Million Jury Verdict Roundup Cancer Coverup

Last week a jury in California found that Monsanto had covered up the dangers of Roundup and awarded to plaintiff $289 million in damages after he developed cancer after just a few years of exposure to Roundup as a groundskeeper. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss this issue.

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A Jury in California found that Monsanto had covered up the dangers of Roundup and awarded to plaintiff $289 million in damages after he developed cancer after just a few years of exposure to Roundup as a groundskeeper. As you know, this case is one I've been working on quite a long time. I've got 16 of these set to go to trial next year as a matter of fact that. These lawyers out in California today, great job presenting the case.

Here it is, the presentation is simple and it has to do with choice. Person uses your product, they should have a choice on whether they want to use a product that can cause cancer. And, if you're not sure it's going to cause cancer but there is information on both sides; it May, it may not, the user should be the person that makes the decision. That's how the case was tried and that's the way we've taken the depositions leading up to this case.

The depositions, I took three of them have people in the top management. That was the question. Shouldn't a person have a choice? You know, we're not 100% on anything. We're not 100% sure, but you have all of this science that's it will cause cancer and you don't even disclose that to the user? It's just a $289 million verdict. Bayer lost $11, I think it was $11 billion because of this hit, and it couldn't happen to a better company.

Bayer is a bottom feeder, Monsanto, they're bottom feeders. What a perfect match. You have these two bottom feeding companies that are going to have to fight their way through this. What's your take on it?

Right now Bayer is freaking out because they've only owned Monsanto for two months and one of the first things that happened is this massive $289 million dollar verdict. They've already said they're going to appeal, but what's happening right now is you have shareholders. You have owners in Bayer that are absolutely freaking out in the boardroom because they saw their stocks dipped 14% in one day.

They're trying to figure out, "Okay, well we have literally thousands of lawsuit still pending. Yes, we're going to appeal this one. It's probably going to get knocked down a bit, but we'll see." But at the end of the day, they really got hammered because they hid the dangers. There's nothing they can do to overcome that part of it. They may reduce the damages, but they're going to get popped a lot more than just this one.

That's what matters. You got about 6,000 cases out there. That's just today. These are people who have Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. When we screen cases for example, we look at their history, how much exposure did you have? Most of the people we handle are groundskeepers. They worked around this stuff for days, I mean for years in whatever job that they were handling. And, no history of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in their family, all of a sudden they have Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

The earliest, earliest information told Monsanto that this was going to happen. As a matter of fact, interesting ... And it's almost like, ... Like I said, couldn't happen to a better company, Monsanto and Bayer together. You talk about to bottom feeding, major corporations, I've sued more times than I can count. I don't know how many times I've been at trial with Bayer.

On pharmaceuticals that kill people. Over the years it's startling. Matter of fact, probably the one most people are familiar with is the Yaz case where Bayer made this product that was supposed to be birth control. It was killing women by the hundreds all over the country with DVTs and blood clots,

But anyway, the mentality of Bayer is, "We're going to get away with it as long as we can."