Monsanto

On Wednesday, Bayer announced a series of agreements that will substantially resolve major outstanding Monsanto litigation. The announcement includes a settlement on U.S. Roundup product liability litigation, dicamba drift litigation and PCB water litigation ...

A judge announced last week he will not throw out Washington’s lawsuit against Monsanto over pervasive pollution from PCBs.  In a ruling Thursday, the King County Superior Court Judge declined a request by Monsanto to dismiss the case, saying the Ag company had waived its right to bring the motion to dismiss by not filing it sooner.   I...

A federal judge reduced a court-ordered penalty against Bayer to $25.2 million from $80.2 million. The award stems from a lawsuit against the company by a California man who claims glyphosate in Roundup caused his cancer. Edward Hardeman says he used Roundup for years, and was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2014, but is now in remission...

A Dow Jones report says Austrian lawmakers banned the key chemical in Roundup Herbicide, the first country to do so in Europe.  Lawmakers in the country were voting on a proposal by the opposition Social Democratic Party to ban the use of the chemical glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide in the world.  A ...

Washington State University researchers have found a variety of diseases and other health problems associated with glyphosate.  Researchers exposed rats to the weed killer, and observed rats developing prostate, kidney and ovarian diseases, obesity and birth abnormalities.  Ho...

Amidst lawsuits claiming the product causes cancer, Bayer has released more than 100 studies on the safety profile of glyphosate.  Bayer sent 107 reports to the European Food Safety Authority and has made the reports available on its dedicated transparency platform.  Th...

In response to an $80 million award to a California man suing the company over Roundup, Bayer says the verdict “does not change the weight of over four decades of extensive science.”  Bayer will appeal the action, which is considered the phase two verdict in the case Hardeman v Monsanto.  The jury found...

A federal judge in San Francisco overseeing lawsuits against Bayer AG’s Roundup weed killer tentatively allowed controversial pieces of evidence in the first phase of the latest trials.  Reuters said the U.S. District Judge called his decision “probably most disappointing for Monsanto,” the Bayer subsidiary that manufactures Roundup.  The company continues to ...

The California groundskeeper who won a lawsuit against Bayer’s Monsanto by claiming that Roundup herbicide caused his cancer has agreed to accept $78 million dollars.  Dewayne Johnson’s doing so against the advice of his lawyers because he wants to “ensure that the situation is resolved in his lifetime.”  The jury’s initial rewar...

Bayer says that it’s focused on defending Monsanto weed-killers containing glyphosate from lawsuits over claims that the products cause cancer.  However, Bayer CEO Werner Baumann said they might settle those cases if the court costs become too high.  Earlier this ...