August 2018

In the recent lawsuit between Dewayne Johnson — a terminally ill non-Hodgkin lymphoma patient and school groundskeeper who filed a lawsuit after years of using Roundup weedkiller — and Monsanto, a San Francisco jury found in Mr. Johnson's favor to the tune of a $289 million verdict against Monsanto. This was a shock verdict to many, especially given the chemical giant's well-known…

In early August of 2018, a San Francisco jury ordered Monsanto to pay $289 million in damages to a California groundskeeper who was diagnosed with terminal non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The groundskeeper, Dewayne Johnson, was diagnosed with the terminal illness only after using Monsanto's Roundup for many years. Some scientific research has linked an herbicide in Roundup called glyphosate to several types…

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with cancer after long-term use of Monsanto's Roundup, it is important to protect your legal rights by talking to a Ledger Law Roundup lawyer. This step is especially important in light of the first trial verdict among thousands of Roundup cancer lawsuits, which ordered Monsanto to pay $289 million to Dewayne…

Monsanto's weed-killing product, Roundup, has featured prominently in the news lately after a plaintiff received $289 million in a lawsuit claiming that the plaintiff's terminal cancer was caused by Roundup. At issue in the lawsuit was whether glyphosate, an herbicide found in Roundup, causes cancer. This is a debated scientific question with, as of yet, no clear consensus, but the…

In the United States, there are approximately 5,000 glyphosate lawsuits being filed against Monsanto because of their Roundup product's use of the herbicide, which has been linked to cancer by California state scientists and the World Health Organization. It can be easy to view this issue as a United States issue, but global companies like Monsanto operate across the world.…