Last year, a Missouri jury awarded $1.56 billion to three people who claimed their cancer was caused by Roundup, but a Missouri state judge later reduced the damages award to just $611 million.
And a jury in Oakland, California, awarded plaintiffs Alva and Alberta Pilliod $2.06 billion in May 2019 after a jury found Roundup likely caused their cancers, but a state judge later slashed that award to $86.7 million.
Monsanto has been litigating product liability claims over Roundup for years. The company has already agreed to pay $9.6 billion to settle hundreds of thousands of claims in multidistrict litigation in 2020, but the federal judge overseeing that litigation refused to let the company settle future claims.
McKivison is represented by Charles Becker, Thomas R. Kline and Tobi L. Millrood of Kline & Specter PC and Jason Itkin of Arnold & Itkin LLP.
The defendants are represented by Michael Hofmann of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, Chanda A. Miller of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Joseph H. Blum, Katelyn A. Romeo, Nicolai Schurko and Erin L. Leffler of Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP and Anthony Upshaw of McDermott Will & Emery LLP.
