Lee Johnson the first man to sue Monsanto and won 230 million Jury award
Ongoing exposure to glyphosates It was his job…school grounds teacher
Found the attorneys on the internet to take it on by Contingency up to 40% for attorneys
Without regulators this is the only option to hire attorneys like this.
How can you prove this chemical caused his cancer in courtroom?
His disease is Non Hodgkin’s lymphoma
He was given 18 months to live in 2015 and, while in poor health, is still living.
Monsanto had documents showed they knew glyphosates caused DNA damage..and were key writers of so called independent studies proving glyphosate is safe.
Independent study was written by glyphosate is
This was their defense…
Jury selections was a long process
The main attorney for Lee Johnson had a massive accident right before the trial. Was Monsanto involved in the accident?
Glyphosate makes about 5 billion per year.
Bayer paid 63 Billion for Monsanto cash
Jury awarded 289 million verdict…Lee Johnson ended up with $20 million at the end of the day
Now over 100,000 lawsuits against Monsanto out there.
There was a whole campaign against Carey for doing this research and book
How can glyphosate survive all these lawsuits?
They have settled many cases out of court and have an
11 Billion fund for this…payouts on average for people $50,000
They are considering taking glyphosate out of the private more retail outlets and just keeping it in agriculture.
People who are getting settlements have to pay back the money to any money paid to insurance.
FDA report found 212 pesticides in the food system from weed killers, pesticides…etc.
Sharon Lerner of the Intercept has lots of goodies for further research https://sharonlerner.com/book/
