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SAN FRANCISCO: The jury in Bayer AG’s third Roundup weedkiller trial was urged by a plaintiffs’ lawyer to consider socking the company with US$1 billion in damages as punishment for covering up the health risks of the herbicide for decades.
“That is a number that changes things,” lawyer Brent Wisner said Wednesday at the close of a trial in state court in Oakland, California. He also asked the jury to award about US$55 million to compensate Alva and Alberta Pilliod for economic damages like hospital bills and non-economic losses such as pain and suffering.
Tarek Ismail told the jury that’s an impossible, illogical conclusion given that Alva Pilliod’s weakened immune system greatly increased his risk of developing cancer. Digging into Pilliod’s medical history, Ismail cited 22 different types of skin cancers starting in his twenties, five brain infections starting in the late 1970s caused by herpes, other viral infections and colitis.
Bayer Chief Executive Officer Werner Baumann faces increased shareholder pressure over the litigation it inherited from Monsanto. The agrochemical giant that operates out of St Louis is the named defendant in US lawsuits over Roundup filed by 13,400 people, a number that jumps by thousands with each passing quarter.
He played a video of an advertisement for Roundup showing a suburban man in shorts and a short-sleeved shirt killing weeds using the company’s “one-touch wand” to a soundtrack invoking the Old West. He pointed to Monsanto’s own exposure studies recommending that the herbicide be applied with chemical boots and overalls.
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