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January 1, Bayer Announces $10B Settlement Over Cancer-Causing Chemicals in Roundup
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Bayer announced that it would pay more than $10 billion to settle thousands of lawsuits filed over its Roundup herbicide.
Roundup’s active ingredient is glyphosate, which many of the approximately 125,000 plaintiffs claimed had caused them to develop non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
In 2015, glyphosate was classified as “probably carcinogenic to humans” by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer.
“The decision to resolve the Roundup™ litigation enables us to focus fully on the critical supply of healthcare and food,” said Werner Baumann, Bayer’s Chief Executive Officer.
“It will also return the conversation about the safety and utility of glyphosate-based herbicides to the scientific and regulatory arena and to the full body of science.”
However, tens of thousands of lawsuits have been filed against Bayer over its herbicide, and recent actions by the U.S. Supreme Court indicate that the company isn’t done in the courtroom.
Supreme Court denies Bayer’s challenge to Roundup lawsuits
On June 21, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a decision in which an appeals court awarded $25 million in damages to Edwin Hardeman, who claimed that he developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after using Roundup for several years.
Then six days later on June 27, the Supreme Court declined to review a 2021 decision in which a California district court awarded $87 million to Alva and Alberta Pilliod, who argued that Roundup caused them to develop non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
“Bayer respectfully disagrees with the Supreme Court’s decision,” a company spokesperson said. “There are likely to be future cases, including Roundup cases, that present the U.S. Supreme Court with preemption questions like Pilliod and Hardeman and could also create a circuit split and potentially change the legal environment.”
Given that the U.S. Supreme Court recently refused to review the first three decisions means that Bayer still faces tens of thousands of lawsuits that were not resolved by its substantial settlement.
If you used Roundup and developed cancer, you may be entitled to significant monetary damages. You can learn more and sign up for a Free Case Review here.
Sources: NPR | Medtruth | Reuters
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John J
August 25, 2022 at 6:29 am
Products must be thoroughly tested BEFORE they are sold
Rat Wrangler
August 25, 2022 at 10:44 am
Glyphosate is listed as a “probable carcinogen”, not a “certain carcinogen”. Talcum powder, also a target for many lawsuits, is in the same category. Cell phone radiation and other broadcast EMF are considered probable carcinogens, but how many cell phone providers have been sued? Waste plastics have been associated with multiple health problems, but I have yet to see a plastic bottle or grocery bag manufacturer sued for damages. Lead was dumped into our environment from the 1920s until the 1970s as an additive to gasoline, but have the oil companies been sued for the damages? What about the government agencies that foolishly permitted tetra-ethyl lead as an additive? Have they been sued? If we are going to go after industries for poisoning us and our environment, we should be fair about it and go after all of them, as well as going after the government agencies that allow it.
Fred
August 25, 2022 at 1:39 pm
A drop in the bucket for these big pharma criminal enterprises (just look at any of these company’s history of crimes & fines), won’t change a thing. The victims of these crimes will never get their health back, if they ever see a penny of the fines, which is highly doubtful.
Dorlis Grote
August 26, 2022 at 3:24 pm
So true! i did not use it , was just exposed by farmer using it, exposing me to the drift when sprayed. I was given 3 months as 4 chemos failed to stop it. Then did my own research, went organic, had a lot of prayer and one year later went into remission. I stopped all processed foods, started vitamins (organic sourced). This $10 billion is as you say a drop in the bucket for them. What have they made in sales until this date?? PLUS, IT IS STILL ON THE SHELVES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.