## What is the Roundup® Lawsuit?
The herbicide and active ingredient in the weed killer Roundup®, called glyphosate, has been classified as a probable carcinogen by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Those heavily exposed are filing Roundup® lawsuits against Monsanto, the maker of the weed killer, claiming that exposure to glyphosate caused them to develop cancer, particularly non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
## May 2019 Roundup® legal verdict awards compensation
In May of 2019, a court case involving a couple who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, was the third consecutive legal verdict against Monsanto’s Roundup®. In this case, the couple was awarded an unprecedented $2 Billion in compensatory and punitive damages. The California jury decided:
- Roundup® was defective
- Bayer’s Monsanto failed to warn consumers of the risk of cancer
- The company was negligent
While Bayer remarked on their intent to appeal the jury decision, this trial may have set the tone for the thousands of additional Roundup lawsuits the company faces.
In other words, this trial made it clear that consumers will not stand for corporate negligence — a stance that jurors will, hopefully, carry into upcoming trials.
## If you have developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and were exposed to Roundup® weed killer we can help
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