Bayer is asking a California appeals court to trim $4 million from the amount of money it owes a California groundskeeper struggling to survive cancer that a trial court found was caused by the man's...
August 5, 2020
Some U.S. Roundup plaintiffs balk at signing Bayer settlement deals; $160,000 average payout eyed
Plaintiffs in the U.S. Roundup litigation are starting to learn the details of what Bayer AG’s $10 billion settlement of cancer claims actually means for them individually, and some are not liking...
July 30, 2020
Appeals court upholds groundskeeper’s Roundup cancer trial win over Monsanto
In yet another court loss for Monsanto owner Bayer AG, an appeals court rejected the company’s effort to overturn the trial victory notched by a California school groundskeeper who alleged exposure...
July 20, 2020
Bayer backs away from plan to contain future Roundup cancer claims
Monsanto owner Bayer AG is backing away from a plan to contain future Roundup cancer claims after a federal judge made it clear he would not approve the scheme, which would delay new trials and limit...
July 8, 2020
Court frowns on Bayer’s proposed Roundup class-action settlement
A federal judge on Monday had harsh words for Bayer AG's plan to delay potential future Roundup cancer lawsuits and block jury trials, criticizing the highly unusual proposal crafted by Bayer and a...
July 6, 2020
Challenge eyed to class action plan for Bayer Roundup settlement
A plan to delay any new Roundup cancer claims for years and shift the key question of whether or not the weed killer causes cancer from a jury to a hand-picked panel of scientists faces potential...
June 26, 2020
Bayer settles U.S. Roundup, dicamba and PCB litigation for more than $10 billion
In an expensive clean-up of Monsanto litigation messes, Bayer AG said Wednesday that it will pay out more than $10 billion to settle tens of thousands of U.S. claims brought against Monsanto over its...
June 24, 2020
Roundup cancer attorney pleads guilty to extortion attempt
A Virginia lawyer who helped represent the first Roundup cancer plaintiff to take Monsanto to trial pleaded guilty on Friday to trying to extort $200 million from a chemical compound supplier to...
June 22, 2020
Big Ag groups argue court cannot tell EPA when to ban dicamba
The heaviest of Big Ag's heavy hitters told a federal court it should not try to stop GMO cotton and soybean farmers from using illegal dicamba weed killers through the end of July, despite the...
June 17, 2020
Panicked chemical giants seek leeway in court ban on their weed killers
Citing an “emergency,” chemical giants BASF and DuPont have asked a federal court to allow them to intervene in a case in which the court earlier this month ordered their dicamba herbicides to be...
June 15, 2020