Victims get $2B from Bayer for cancerous weedkiller

Top 10 lists are fun... This one isn't. A California jury awarded $2B from Bayer to two non-Hodgkin Lymphoma suffers. Blame Bayer's Roundup weedkiller for causing it (according to the verdict). It’s the 8th biggest product-defect award ever, so Bayer’s appealing as its shares fell 2% Tuesday.

FYI, the World Health Org. thinks Roundup probably causes cancer. America’s EPA doesn’t.

What’s the return policy on Monsanto?… Germany’s top chemical company was built through the humble invention of Aspirin in 1899. A century later, Bayer dabbled in high-finance by acquiring US-based Monsanto last year for $66B. Here's what it's received from the St. Louis company:

• Added profits: Bayer snagged Monsanto for the $2B in annual profits it was generating on genetically-modified crop seeds, plant fertilizers, and other blasphemies to organic eating.
• Added lawsuits: It's lost three lawsuits connected to Monsanto's Roundup so far, with verdicts of $2B, $289M, and $80M. There are ~13K more suing.
• The result: Bayer stock is down 44% since its Monsanto wedding day in June of ’18.