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October 10, 2024 at 2:47 PM. By Brendan Pierson. (Reuters) -Bayer must pay $78 million to a Pennsylvania man who said he got cancer from using the company's Roundup weedkiller, a state court jury ...
Bayer. German pharmaceutical company Bayer agreed to pay nearly $11 billion to settle thousands of lawsuits over subsidiary Monsanto’s weed-killer Roundup. The settlement aims to clear nearly ...
October 12, 2024 at 5:36 AM. Roundup weed killer cancer lawsuits keep mounting as Pennsylvania man is awarded $78 million. A Pennsylvania man was awarded $78 million after filing a lawsuit saying ...
Johnson v. Monsanto Co. was the first lawsuit to proceed to trial over Monsanto 's Roundup herbicide product causing cancer. The lawsuit alleged that the exposure of glyphosate, an active ingredient in the Roundup product, caused Dewayne "Lee" Johnson's non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In a landmark verdict, Monsanto's purchaser Bayer Corporation was ...
On July 26, 2019, an Alameda County judge cut the settlement to $86.7 million, stating that the judgement by the jury exceeded legal precedent. [123] In June 2020, Bayer agreed to settle over a hundred thousand Roundup lawsuits, agreeing to pay $8.8 to $9.6 billion to settle those claims, and $1.5 billion for any future claims.
Roundup is a brand name of herbicide originally produced by Monsanto, which Bayer acquired in 2018. Prior to the late-2010s formulations, it used broad-spectrum glyphosate-based herbicides. [2] As of 2009, sales of Roundup herbicides still represented about 10 percent of Monsanto's revenue despite competition from Chinese producers of other ...
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 ...
Munger, Tolles & Hills opened in Tishman Building at Flower Street and Wilshire Boulevard in Downtown Los Angeles on February 1, 1962. It was born out of the desire of three partners at Musick, Peeler & Garrett — Charlie Munger, E. Leroy Tolles, and Roderick M. Hills — to strike out on their own.