Bayer Agrees to US$7.25 Billion Proposed Settlement over Thousands of Roundup Cancer Lawsuits
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Bayer agrees to US$7.25 billion proposed settlement over thousands of Roundup cancer lawsuits
Agrochemical maker Bayer and attorneys for cancer patients announced a proposed $7.25 billion settlement Tuesday to resolve thousands of U.S. lawsuits alleging the company failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer.
The German giant Bayer agreed to pay $7.250 million to close thousands of trials in the United States related to her herbicide Roundup. The plaintiffs accuse the company of not warning that glyphosate (its main component) causes cancer, specifically non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Although Bayer bought from the American Monsanto in 2018 and defends that the product is safe, judicial pressure forced her to agree annual payments for 21 years to compensate a…
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