{"id":20220,"date":"2019-05-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/14\/california-couple-awarded-2-billion-in-roundup-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2019-05-15T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T16:10:07","slug":"california-couple-awarded-2-billion-in-roundup-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/14\/california-couple-awarded-2-billion-in-roundup-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"California Couple Awarded &#36;2 Billion in Roundup Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Bayer, parent company of Monsanto, maintains glyphosate, main ingredient in Roundup, is safe<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, May 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; An elderly California couple who said their cancer was caused by Monsanto&#8217;s weed killer Roundup was awarded just over $2 billion by a jury in Oakland on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict includes more than $55 million in compensatory damages and $2 billion in punitive damages, <i>CNN<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiffs Alva and Alberta Pilliod of Livermore said they used Roundup on their property for more than three decades and were diagnosed with the same type of cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, four years apart, their lawyers said.<\/p>\n<p>The company has had several recent losses in court cases concerning Roundup and faces thousands more cases in the United States, <i>CNN<\/i> reported. Bayer, the parent company of Monsanto, says glyphosate &#8212; the main ingredient in Roundup &#8212; is safe and plans to appeal the verdict.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/13\/health\/monsanto-roundup-cancer-verdict-bn\/index.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>CNN<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayer, parent company of Monsanto, maintains glyphosate, main ingredient in Roundup, is safe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-20220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}