Roundup class action lawsuits still moving through courts

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Monsanto Roundup weedkiller cancer class action lawsuits overview: 

• Who: Class action lawsuits and settlements involving Monsanto continue to work their way through courts in the United States. 
• Why: Complaints and settlements involving Monsanto revolve around its sale of Roundup weedkiller, which consumers argue contains glyphosate, an allegedly cancer-causing chemical. 
• Where: Class action lawsuits have been filed against Monsanto nationwide. 

Class action lawsuits and settlement agreements involving Roundup weedkiller manufacturer Monsanto continue making their way through the courts.

Consumers filing complaints against Monsanto claim the Bayer AG subsidiary failed to declare that its Roundup weedkiller could cause cancer and that consumers suffered adverse health effects from exposure. 

Monsanto first introduced Roundup as a commercial-use weedkiller back in 1974; however, the product, which also goes by its non-brand name, glyphosate, has been linked to a number of health problems, including cancer. 

Monsanto, meanwhile, has been forced to pay hundreds of millions in compensation to consumers claiming exposure to Roundup weedkiller was the cause of their cancer.

Monsanto class action alleges Roundup weedkiller harmed buyers

In January, a group of Roundup buyers asked a California court to approve a settlement with Monsanto worth up to $45 million that would resolve claims the company inflated the price of Roundup by failing to declare it posed a cancer risk. 

The settlement would allow consumers who purchased Roundup to make a claim for a 20% reimbursement of the average retail price of the product they purchased. 

Buyers argued Monsanto illegally marketed Roundup to a class of what could be millions of unwitting consumers who were unaware the product could allegedly cause cancer and other adverse health effects. 

In April, the judge overseeing the case expressed concerns over the $45 million settlement amount, fearing that it could be too low of an amount, Law360 reports. 

Further, the judge worried the settlement did not do enough to notify class members of their rights to still file personal injury claims against Monsanto in the event they develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Last November, meanwhile, the California Supreme Court upheld a decision requiring Monsanto to pay a California couple $87 million over claims Roundup was responsible for their cancer. 

Monsanto was unsuccessful at that time in an attempt to get the court’s decision overturned with a jury determining that the couple had adequately argued that Roundup was the cause of them developing cancer. 

The couple was back in court last month to urge the U.S. Supreme Court not to review the $87 million settlement agreement and to reject the company’s certiorari petition, Law360 reports. 

In a separate lawsuit, a jury in December sided with Monsanto in a lawsuit filed against the company by a woman claiming her exposure to Roundup caused her to develop cancer. 

The jury determined Monsanto was not responsible for the woman’s cancer, that the company was not negligent in selling Roundup and that it did not know the true dangers of exposure to its product. 

The outcome was the second decision to go in Monsanto’s favor in recent months around that time.

Monsanto faced a new lawsuit one month prior in November with a widower claiming her husband developed non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and subsequently died after being exposed to Roundup.

The widower claimed her 55-year-old husband’s death was premature and the result of more than four decades of exposure to Roundup weedkiller. 

That same month, a married couple filed a complaint against Monsanto, claiming the company was negligent by selling Roundup weedkiller containing the herbicide glyphosate. 

The couple claim the husband developed non-Hodgkin Lymphoma after being exposed to the glyphosate and surfactant POEA found in Roundup. 

The couple also accused Monsanto of having known that the glyphosate in its Roundup weedkiller was carcinogenic from as far back as the early 1980s. 

Monsanto completes several settlements over Roundup 

Several settlement agreements involving Monsanto have already been closed, including one from 2018 that awarded consumers a total of $21.5 million.

The settlement resolved claims that Monsanto misrepresented the spray ability of several of its Roundup weedkiller products.

In 2021, meanwhile, Monsanto agreed to a settlement worth $39.5 million that resolved claims it mislabeled certain of its Roundup weedkiller products. 

Consumers claimed Monsanto misled them by falsely labeling some of its Roundup products that they would only target an enzyme in plants and would not have an effect on people or their pets. 

Finally, in December 2020, Monsanto agreed to pay as much as $300 million to end claims that its herbicides containing the chemical dicamba damaged soybean crops. 

The settlement benefited commercial soybean producers who claimed their crops showed symptoms of being exposed to dicamba. 

Have you been diagnosed with cancer after using Roundup weed killer? You may be eligible to get a free Roundup cancer lawsuit claim review.

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