by | Apr 29, 2019 | Toxic Tort
Monsanto is fighting on multiple fronts against lawsuits alleging that its glyphosate-containing Roundup weed killer causes cancer. On trial in California, Monsanto has started presenting its defense after plaintiffs Alva and Alberta Plliod rested their case last...
by | Apr 23, 2019 | Toxic Tort
Jurors in the Alva and Alberta Pilliod trial heard from numerous witness last week including members of Monsanto’s product safety team and the Pilliods themselves, a married couple who allege they both developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma from their long-term use of...
by | Apr 16, 2019 | Toxic Tort
Jurors in the Alva and Alberta Pilliod trial spent most of last week hearing from multiple expert witnesses hired by plaintiffs regarding research they say shows that the glyphosate-based herbicide, Roundup, causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The Pilliods, married for...
by | Apr 11, 2019 | Events, Toxic Tort
On Thursday, April 18, 2019, from 12:30pm until 1:30pm, Michaela Lancer and John Gardella will speak at a lunch event sponsored by the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association’s (MDLA) Toxic Torts Committee on the topic of glyphosate. The presentation is...
by Gilliam Stewart | Apr 8, 2019 | Prop 65
California’s Proposition 65 is, among other things, a consumer product labeling law. Though there are exceptions to the rule, it is generally a safe bet that if a product contains one or more of approximately 900 chemicals known to the State of California to cause...
