The jury awarded $2.055 billion to Alva and Alberta Pilliod, a northern California couple who had used Roundup weed killer product for 35 years, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday.
Two other California residents successfully sued Bayer in Roundup cancer cases. In March, a jury awarded the plaintiff $80 million and in October a judge upheld a decision awarding $78.6 million for allegations the product caused cancer.
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In 2018, Bayer acquired US-biotech giant Monsanto which produces Roundup thereby exposing itself to 13,400 claims related to similar allegations, the report added.
