"Last week’s huge jury award against Monsanto Co. over its popular weed killers Roundup and Ranger Pro could boost litigation from others claiming their use of the products harmed them.
On the first business day after a California jury awarded $289 million in damages to a man who claimed his use of a Monsanto weed killer led to his blood cancer, the firm that helped argue the case received more than 200 calls from people interested in joining future suits.
Those potential cases are in addition to roughly 5,000 already filed across the nation, from Delaware to California and in between at Monsanto’s headquarters city of St. Louis, said R. Brent Wisner, one of the co-litigators arguing on behalf of Dewayne Lee Johnson, a former school groundskeeper whose non-Hodgkin lymphoma is terminal."
