Louisville lawyer wins $80M verdict against Monsanto over weedkiller Roundup
A Louisville lawyer has won an $80.3 million verdict for a California man after a jury found his exposure to Monsanto’s widely-used weedkiller Roundup was a factor in his cancer.
The verdict was won by Louisville products liability lawyer Jennifer A. Moore and another attorney for Edwin Hardeman, 70, who developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after about two decades of using Roundup to kill weeds on his 56-acre property in Sonoma County, California.
The jury verdict was returned Wednesday by a federal court jury in San Francisco and could affect thousands of other suits against the chemical giant. The verdict included $75 million in punitive damages.
Moore, who runs a three-lawyer firm in Louisville {and chair of the Kentucky Democratic Party from 2007 to 2009}, said in a closing argument that that it was “reckless” and “offensive” for Monsanto to claim there was no evidence linking Roundup to cancer.
Read more: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2019/03/28/monsanto-roundup-cancer-lawsuit-louisville-lawyer-wins-huge-verdict-80-million/3295421002/
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