Mosanto fined $290 million for not warning groundskeeper of cancer- causing effect of Round up

A jury ordered Roundup producer Monsanto to pay Dewayne Johnson $290 million in damages for not warning him that the weed killer might cause cancer [Courtesy]

A judge on Wednesday was mulling whether to gut a jury order that Monsanto pay $290 million in damages for not warning a groundskeeper that its weed killer product Roundup might cause cancer.

In motions filed after the historic August verdict, Monsanto urged the judge to strip away the $250 million punitive portion of the damages, arguing that a new trial was justified.