Roundup Plaintiffs, Bayer in Talks to Settle Claims For $10 Billion January 24, 2020 By Jef Feeley In an effort to settle tens of thousands of claims that Bayer AG’s Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, lawyers for some...
Bayer Roundup Deal Is Close as Claims Surge, Mediator Says January 17, 2020 By Joel Rosenblatt Bayer AG may be only weeks away from settling more than 75,000 cancer claims over its Roundup weed-killer, after a...
Bayer Roundup Mediator Is ‘Optimistic’ With Talks Heating Up January 10, 2020 By Jef Feeley Bayer AG’s settlement talks over tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging its Roundup herbicide causes cancer are heating up as...
Two Bayer Roundup Trials Postponed to Give Time for Talks December 6, 2019 By Tim Loh Bayer AG agreed to postpone two upcoming U.S. trials involving its Roundup weedkiller to allow time for mediation talks on...
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 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...
Judge Cuts $2 Billion Verdict Against Bayer in Roundup Case to $86 Million July 26, 2019 By Tina Bellon A California judge on Thursday reduced a $2 billion jury verdict, slashing the award for a couple who blamed Bayer...
Bayer’s Other Legal Mess: An Old Liability Many Have Forgotten July 23, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Tim Loh The widening legal nightmare over Roundup weedkillers isn’t the only potential multi-billion-dollar liability Bayer AG inherited last year when it...