The groundskeeper who won a massive civil suit against Bayer's Monsanto, claiming that the weed-killer Roundup caused his cancer, agreed to accept $78 million, after a judge substantially reduced the jury's original $289 million award.
Dewayne "Lee" Johnson, a northern Californian groundskeeper and pest-control manager, was 42 when he developed a strange rash that would lead to a diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in August 2014.
His groundskeeper duties included mixing and spraying hundreds of gallons of Roundup, the company's glyphosate-containing weed-killer product, court records say.
Johnson—now near death according to his doctors—sued Monsanto in June, testifying that the herbicide likely caused his cancer. In August, jurors unanimously agreed and awarded him a total of $289 million, with $250 million in punitive damages and $39.25 million in compensatory damages.
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