Background Bayer, the parent company of Monsanto, which owns the popular herbicide Roundup, faced  a legal setback after a jury awarded a staggering $2.25 billion, with $2 billion in punitive damages. This is the largest verdict awarded against Roundup so far, in five years  of litigation. The plaintiff, John McKivison, asserted that his two-decade long use of Roundup resulted in his diagnosis of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. McKivison’s lawyers emphasized that the jury’s punitive damages award...