Judge Cuts Bayer $2.25 Billion Roundup Verdict to $400 Million
A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday slashed a $2.25 billion U.S. verdict against Bayer to $400 million for a Pennsylvania man who said he developed cancer from exposure to the ...
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Bayer Fights Roundup Trial Losses Including $2.25B Verdict in Philadelphia
When a Philadelphia jury awarded $2.25 billion in damages this year in a case that linked Roundup to a cable technician's blood cancer, the verdict became the largest yet in the long-running ...
Supreme Court Spurns Dispute Over Roundup Class-Action Settlement
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a dispute involving a lawsuit against Bayer AG's Monsanto Co that could rein in a common form of settlement in class ...
Pesticides: The New Pharma?
Fen-phen, Baycol, Rezulin, Vioxx… The 1990s and 2000s saw a tidal wave of pharmaceutical-related litigation that dominated the agenda of the plaintiffs' bar. Mass torts over the negative health ...
Bayer Loses Yet Another Appeal of Roundup Weed Killer Cancer Verdict
Bayer AG's Roundup woes deepened as it lost another appeal of a jury verdict finding its weed killer causes cancer, the company's third consecutive appeals court loss of the cases that have gone to ...
Judge Proposes Warning Label in $2B Plan to Limit Roundup Claims
A U.S. judge suggested on Wednesday that Bayer AG include a warning label on Roundup as part of a proposed $2 billion settlement to resolve future claims that the top-selling weedkiller causes ...
Shareholders Sue Bayer, Alleging Roundup Lawsuit Secrecy Hurt Share Price
Two law firms are suing Bayer for damages on behalf of shareholders, claiming the German group's management should have warned of the risk of lawsuits over the Roundup weedkiller when Bayer acquired ...
Bayer Risks Resumption of U.S. Roundup Suits After Failing to Settle Cases
Bayer AG failed to settle outstanding U.S. Roundup lawsuits by Monday, the deadline set by a judge who has said he'll resume federal trials over claims the weedkiller caused consumers' cancer. Ahead ...
Bayer Resolves More Roundup Cases
Attorneys for Bayer AG and consumers suing the company over allegations its Roundup weedkiller caused cancer told a judge on Thursday they are continuing to resolve thousands more cases, improving ...