Judge Kills, Slams Bayer’s Plan To Limit Future Roundup Legal Liability

"Judge: Bayer 'losing trials left and right' on cancer claims associated with glyphosate-based herbicides"

"The federal judge overseeing nationwide Roundup litigation on Wednesday denied Bayer's latest attempt to limit its legal liability from future cancer claims associated with its glyphosate-based herbicides, citing numerous "glaring flaws" in a settlement proposed to apply to Roundup users who have not yet sued the company but may want to do so in the future.

Saying parts of the plan were "clearly unreasonable" and unfair to cancer sufferers who would be part of the class settlement, U.S. Judge Vince Chhabria castigated Bayer and the small group of lawyers who put the plan together in conjunction with Bayer.

He pointed out that the company has been "losing trials left and right" in claims brought by people suffering from non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) who alleged exposure to Monsanto's Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides were the cause."

Carey Gillam reports for Environmental Health News May 27, 2021.

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Source: EHN, 05/28/2021