Weed killer firm must give US cancer couple $3b

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The couple, who are in their 70s, claimed they used Roundup for more than 30 years to landscape their home and other properties, without protective gear. 9News

“We are very angry. We hope to get justice,” Mrs Pilliod said last year according to the lawyers website.The jury in Oakland delivered Monsanto's third such loss in California since August.

A federal jury in San Francisco previously ordered the weed killer maker to pay a man $115 million and a San Francisco jury in August awarded $416 million to a former greenskeeper, though a judge later reduced it.The company said it will appeal.

 

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3 billion? Might start drinking the stuff.

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