Monsanto granted new trial in case that found it caused man's cancer

The agrochemical company is challenging a landmark ruling which ordered it to pay $289m to a former groundskeeper dying of cancer

A US judge has granted chemical giant Monsanto, owned by Germany’s Bayer AG, a new trial on punitive damages of $289m awarded to a man who claimed its herbicide had given him terminal cancer.

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