Bayer Corp. Allocates $4.5B For Future Roundup Claims, Plans Supreme Court Appeal

Mealey's (July 30, 2021, 10:15 AM EDT) -- LEVERKUSEN, Germany — Bayer Corp. on July 29 announced that it has allocated $4.5 billion to cover glyphosate cancer litigation against its subsidiary Monsanto Co., which manufactures the herbicide Roundup, as it prepares to file a petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court in August seeking to overturn a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that held that a glyphosate cancer victim’s claims against the company are not preempted by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)....

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