High Profile Roundup Trial Postponed By Bayer
High Profile Roundup Trial Postponed By Bayer
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Bayer AG has agreed to the court's decision to postpone a high profile trial over its controversial weedkiller Roundup in Missouri as thousands of lawsuits are pending for settlement.
Ken Feinberg is the mediator of Bayer for making the settlements of over thousands of lawsuits over Roundup weedkiller. About 42,700 lawsuits are alleging that Roundup caused non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Judges have even postponed other lawsuits, whereas Bayer is discussing a $10 billion settlement for the remaining Roundup lawsuits.
On Friday morning, the fourth trial over Roundup litigation was to begin in St Louis, but it did not happen as lawyers of the company and plaintiffs decided to settle the issue out of the court.
It would have been the first trial of multi-plaintiff whether glyphosate, Roundup's active ingredient, is carcinogenic, and the first trial outside of California. The weed killer has been previously found responsible for causing cancer on three occasions by the jury.
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