Pesticide as Cause of MGUS. Anyone pursuing legal action?

Posted by jinfresno @jinfresno, Aug 6 12:01pm

I understand that there is a class action settlement with the company that owns Round Up and that if you have serious symptoms (such as progression to SMM or MM) and you were exposed to the chemical, you may have a claim.

Just wondering if anyone has pursued this since it is recognized as increasing risk of the disease.

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Class action lawsuits benefit the lawyers, not the victims. The class action for Roundup is not for MGUS, SMM or MM. If you want to pursue legal action, you will need to contact one of the large national firms handling these individual cases.

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Look into the recent Supreme Court decision on Round-up. This will probably limit the product liability litigation against the product.

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@jinfresno , there is no known cause for MGUS, SMM, MM, so difficult to prove pesticides or anything else causes the disease. Incidence is higher among black men, but it can hit all of us. My MGUS started ramping up after I caught covid in March of 2023, and norovirus that year (now SMM) but that could be chance, or that the deranged plasma cells were replicating because of the immune response. Some things can be proved, such as black lung from coal mining, mesothelioma from Grace Mine asbestos, and increased risk for cancer among other occupations, obesity, smoking, drinking, and other, but we get to live in a gray zone.

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I guess it depends where you look:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6612199/
"Glyphosate induces benign monoclonal gammopathy and promotes multiple myeloma progression in mice."

and
https://www.consumershield.com/product-liability/roundup/what-cancers-are-included

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MGUS is so common, its hard to pinpoint a cause. Its often not detected. Pesticides are possibly the cause of many diseases, but proving that will be very hard.

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I'm not saying that it's right or wrong, but supposedly you don't have to prove cause, just the possibility. Homeowners may have a harder time proving possibility than a landscaper, but most legal firms will at least listen and then decide if there's enough financial incentive for them to proceed.

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