Powder Keg: FDA Bowed to Industry for Decades as Alarms Were Sounded Over Talc December 3, 2019 By Lisa Girion and Chad Terhune At an invitation-only gathering late last year, U.S. regulators and their guests huddled at a hotel near Washington, D.C., to...
Bausch Yanked Talc From Its Body Powder Months Before J&J Recall November 6, 2019 By Jef Feeley As retailers pull Johnson & Johnson’s recalled talc-based baby powder from their shelves over reports of asbestos contamination, one competitor...
Georgia Plant Agrees to Close in Fight Over Gas Emissions October 30, 2019 By Sudhin Thanawala ATLANTA — Georgia officials reached an agreement Monday to temporarily shut down a medical sterilization facility that uses a gas...
Bayer Expects Significant Surge In Number of U.S. Glyphosate Cases October 17, 2019 FRANKFURT, Germany — Bayer expects the number of claims in the United States related to Roundup herbicide to have surged...
Bayer’s Roundup Trial Delay Gives Time for Settlement Talks October 7, 2019 By Craig Giammona The last scheduled trial of the year over Bayer AG’s Roundup herbicide has been postponed at the request of both...
Bayer Mediator Dismisses Report of $8 Billion Roundup Settlement August 12, 2019 By Jonathan Stempel and Ludwig Burger NEW YORK/FRANKFURT — Bayer AG has not offered to pay billions of dollars to settle claims in the United States...
Bayer Is Said to Seek $8 Billion Roundup Cancer-Claim Deal August 9, 2019 By Jef Feeley, Joel Rosenblatt and Tim Loh Bayer AG is proposing to pay as much as $8 billion to settle more than 18,000 U.S. lawsuits alleging its...
Bayer CEO Opens Door to Roundup Settlement as Lawsuits Swell July 30, 2019 By Tim Loh Bayer AG Chief Executive Officer Werner Baumann said he’d consider a “financially reasonable” settlement of litigation over the weedkiller Roundup...
J&J Would Rather Fight a Cancer-Warning Lawsuit on Baby Powder July 29, 2019 By Edvard Pettersson Johnson & Johnson wants its day in court to fight a lawsuit intended to force it to put a cancer...
Bayer Called ‘Reprehensible’ on Roundup as Judge Cuts Award 69% July 16, 2019 By Joel Rosenblatt Even as Bayer AG got a jury verdict slashed to $25.3 million from $80.3 million in a California case alleging...