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Tag: Edwin Hardeman

  • Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 - 09:05 UTC

    Glyphosate case: US Judge lowers damage award against Bayer

    “It's quite clear that under the Constitution I'm required to reduce the punitive damages award and it's just a question of how much,” Judge Chhabria said

    A U.S. judge on Tuesday said he would reduce a US$80 million damage award against Bayer AG to US$50 million or less in the case of a man who blamed his cancer on glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco said the jury's US$75 million punitive damages award to plaintiff Edwin Hardeman in March could not stand.

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 10:11 UTC

    US jury considers glyphosate “a substantial factor” in causing human cancer

    Pharmaceutical group Bayer had strongly rejected claims that its glyphosate-based Roundup product was carcinogenic

    A US jury has found that one of the world's most widely-used weed-killers was a “substantial factor” in causing a man's cancer. Pharmaceutical group Bayer had strongly rejected claims that its glyphosate-based Roundup product was carcinogenic. But the jury in San Francisco ruled unanimously that it contributed to causing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in California resident Edwin Hardeman.