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Bayer/Monsanto Win Brazilian Seed Patent Challenge

05.11.2019 - In what is being called a “landmark” class-action lawsuit, brought by the national farmers’ unions against Monsanto, a Brazilian appeals court has found in favor the company bought...

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Bayer’s Roundup Lawsuits Doubled Since July

31.10.2019 - In mid-October Bayer was facing Roundup-related lawsuits from about 42,700 US-based plaintiffs, the German group’s CEO, Werner Baumann, said in reporting financial results for the...

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Bayer Ready to Wind up Glyphosate Suits?

12.08.2019 - As the number of lawsuits from people claiming that Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide caused their cancer mount – to currently more than 18,000 –signals increasingly point to an out-of...

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Damages Reduced in Third Roundup Verdict

29.07.2019 - A third judge has slashed a jury’s damage award to a plaintiff in a lawsuit involving Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide. The award reduced last week by Judge Winifred...

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Monsanto List Targeted 600 in Germany and France

18.06.2019 - As it continues to deal with the fallout from its takeover of Monsanto, Bayer is working through the former US agribusiness giant’s list of “enemies,” and said it is notifying...

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Bayer Faces Roundup Lawsuit in Australia

07.06.2019 - Bayer is already facing more than US 13,000 lawsuit contending that Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide causes cancer. Now – as had been widely speculated over the past few weeks – it has...

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Bayer Loses Third Monsanto Roundup Case

16.05.2019 - Bayer is reeling from its third consecutive loss in a US court case involving Monsanto’s controversial glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup. Since the $63 billion takeover of the US...

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Bayer AGM Censures Leaders for Monsanto Woes

29.04.2019 - Bayer’s annual general meeting (agm) on Apr. 26 proved to be as turbulent as expected. Although those attending the nearly 13-hour marathon session nodded off on major proposals...