A nine-year-old California boy with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma will become the focus of the next scheduled jury trial involving Roundup, the controversial weed killer and the target of thousands of personal injury claims.
The trial, which is expected to draw considerable attention, is scheduled for September 13 in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Destiny Clark, the mother of Ezra Clark, is the official plaintiff in the case filed against Monsanto, the American agricultural biotechnology corporation.
It will be the second trial since 2019 held in the United States involving Monsanto. The first is currently proceeding in the Superior Court of San Bernardino County after several delays.
Most claims against Monsanto are being handled in class action settlements through multidistrict litigation. Although Monsanto is the named defendant in ongoing litigation, the company was bought in 2018 by Bayer AG, a German corporation that assumed all liabilities.
Bayer Wanting to Avoid Trials
Bayer wants to settle most cases involving Roundup to avoid unpredictable jury trials.
Before the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic brought most jury trials to a halt throughout the country, Bayer sustained major trial losses in 2018 and 2019, including one worth a staggering $2 billion.
Cited was Monsanto’s failure to warn users of scientific evidence showing the connection between Roundup and cancers.
In 2020, Bayer agreed to a $10.9 billion settlement to cover almost 100,000 plaintiffs who claimed Roundup had...
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