Bayer has agreed to pay up to $400 million to settle claims of farmers in Missouri and elsewhere against Monsanto for crop damage they say was caused by dicamba drift.

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Bayer said it would pay up to $400 million to settle cases involving the weedkiller dicamba having drifted onto plants that weren’t bred to resist it, killing them.

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The German agribusiness giant Bayer AG has temporarily closed two locations in Missouri and two in New Jersey due to concerns that an employee may have contracted the new coronavirus. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Bayer learned Sunday an employee ...

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A jury on Saturday awarded $265 million in punitive damages to a southeastern Missouri peach farmer who argued that weedkiller dicamba that had drifted onto his orchards from other farms had severely damaged his trees — an award that could ...

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A jury on Saturday awarded $265 million in punitive damages to a southeastern Missouri peach farmer who argued that weedkiller dicamba that had drifted onto his orchards from other farms had severely damaged his trees — an award that could ...

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Bayer has agreed to a global settlement of $750 million for U.S. farmers affected by a 2006 contamination of their crops.

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Any way you look at it, Bayer has handed over a lot of documents to plaintiffs as the parties prepare for multiple Yaz and Yasmin birth control trials — and they expect to turn over up to 30 million more, the lawyers said in a motion seeking a protective order to bar more “overly burdensome discovery requests.” Pictured here, an employee examines Yaz birth control pills in Bayer's factory in Berlin.

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Bayer CropScience must pay about $2 million for losses sustained by two Missouri farmers when an experimental variety of rice the company was testing cross-bred with their crops, a federal jury ruled. Friday’s verdict in St. Louis came in the ...

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A Bayer CropScience executive who oversaw tests of genetically modified rice told jurors about the discovery of one variety of the grain where another was thought to have been planted five years before it was learned that U.S. crops had ...

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Bayer CropScience is responsible for financial damage sustained by Missouri farmers when their rice crops were contaminated by genetically modified seed, a federal court jury in St. Louis was told by the growers’ lawyer. “Bayer was supposed to be careful,” ...

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Abbott Laboratories was sued by Bayer AG’s HealthCare unit, which demands royalties on its top-selling product, the arthritis drug Humira. Bayer, Germany’s largest drugmaker and the inventor of aspirin, claims in a Dec. 24 lawsuit that the drug violates its ...

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