The plaintiff claimed that the use of Monsanto's weed control agent provoked an oncological disease.
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In a court of the city of San Francisco (USA), a lawsuit was held on the lawsuit of a 70-year-old US citizen against Monsanto. According to the plaintiff, he actively used a Monsanto weed control product containing the glyphosate herbicide, which ultimately caused cancer, in the period from the 1980s to 2012.
The case is precedent, the first in a series of 750 such cases pending in court on charges of Monsanto.
The consideration of this claim in court ended with a decision to oblige the manufacturing company to pay the victim 78 million US dollars.
Four months earlier, a California court also ordered the manufacturer to pay $ 78 million to a victim of cancer. The jury concluded that the glyphosad herbicide “contributed significantly” to the onset of cancer in the 46-year-old plaintiff, who had previously worked as a school site supervisor and had been using the drug for several years. The jury justified the fault of Monsanto by the fact that the company did not warn buyers that the herbicides in its products could provoke oncological diseases.
