HR!Day618 - Glyphosate: Legal Success: USD $10 + Billion Lawsuit Victory against Bayer / Monsanto
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Bayer/Monsanto lost a landmark cancer trial in San Francisco and was ordered to pay over USD 289 Million (reduced on appeal to USD 78 Million) in total damages to the former school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson, a California father who has non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which was caused by Monsanto’s glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup. This case led to one of the largest legal payouts in legal history as Bayer/Monsanto were forced to settle thousands of lawsuits for over $10 Billion. Dewayne Johnson and his lawyer Brent Wisner are here today to discuss their amazing journey.
Moderators:
- Tom Eddington is an author, Executive Coach, Business Advisor, and Executive Producer of documentary films. He holds an M.S. in Organization Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania. As a scholar of Conscious Leadership, he is passionate about bringing more conscious leadership into the world which he does through his coaching and advisory work, film and media projects and Board positions. As CEO of Endangered.global he brings his commitment and experience to impacting climate change and biodiversity loss.
- Henry Rowlands was brought up on a family run sheep farm in the Pembrokeshire National Park in Wales. His connection to both farming and the protection of the Welsh countryside led to a deep interest in issues related to sustainable agriculture from a young age. Following work as a news agency Journalist across Europe, Henry moved on to set up Sustainable Pulse, which is a popular online global media that focuses on sustainable agriculture and sustainable food. In 2015, Henry also set up The Detox Project, which provides Glyphosate Residue Free certification to show that food, supplement and beauty products do not contain the world’s most used weed-killer. The Glyphosate Residue Free certification market has reached over USD $500M in under 4 years. Alongside his work on toxics Henry’s work on regenerative agriculture has involved a concentration on the metrics required to enable global scaling. Henry is part of the Science Committee for the Soil Carbon Initiative and is also on the Sustainable Protein Design Team for the Manitoba Government in Canada.
Panelists:
- Dewayne ‘Lee’ Johnson, one of the most famous plaintiffs in legal history, sprayed hundreds of gallons of RoundUp over the course of his career as a school groundskeeper in Benicia, California. On one occasion, one of the sprayers he was using broke and he was drenched in RoundUp. In 2014 at age 42, Johnson was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which he alleged at trial was caused by the pesticide exposure. In 2017, he was given a terminal diagnosis and was told that he would only live another 6 months. Due to this diagnosis, his trial was expedited.
- R. Brent Wisner is an attorney and senior shareholder in the San Francisco Bay Area office of Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman. Brent is driven by a deep-rooted passion for using the law to help those who have been marginalized and hurt by large, and sometimes malicious, corporations. Brent has dedicated his practice to vindicating his client’s rights and holding wrongdoers accountable. After obtaining two landmark verdicts against Monsanto, he has been showered with major awards and recognition. He is the youngest attorney in U.S. history to win a multi-billion-dollar jury verdict.
Co-convener:
- Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University
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