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Bayer Hit With $2.25B Verdict in Roundup Lawsuit

Man Awarded $2.25B
in Latest Roundup Lawsuit

Jan 31, 2024 4:38 PM CST

Man Awarded $2.25B in Latest Roundup Lawsuit

Bayer calls award 'unconstitutionally excessive'

(Newser) - Bayer has been ordered to pay a Pennsylvania man $2.25 billion in a verdict that "sends a clear message that this multi-national corporation needs top to bottom change," the man's lawyers say. A jury awarded the man the sum—which includes $2 billion in damages—after...

Bayer Ordered to Pay $80M in Roundup Case

Man Who Blames Roundup
for His Cancer Awarded $80M

Mar 28, 2019 4:00 AM CDT

Man Who Blames Roundup for His Cancer Awarded $80M

Edwin Hardeman has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

(Newser) - Bayer inherited thousands of lawsuits when it bought Monsanto —and after the latest lawsuit involving the latter company's Roundup weed killer, the German pharma giant may be experiencing buyer's remorse. A jury in San Francisco federal court Wednesday ordered Bayer to pay $80 million to a man...

Chemical Brothers:
Monsanto Acquired
by Bayer for $66B

Sep 14, 2016 9:52 AM CDT

Chemical Brothers: Monsanto Acquired by Bayer for $66B

Bayer AG is paying big bucks to acquire the seed and weedkiller company

(Newser) - After months of courtship, German drug and farm chemical maker Bayer AG has finally reached an agreement to buy US seed and weedkiller company Monsanto, in a deal valued at $66 billion, the AP reports. In a statement Wednesday, Bayer said it's paying Monsanto shareholders $128 per share in...

4 Things to Know About the $62B Bid for Monsanto

May 23, 2016 6:36 AM CDT

4 Things to Know About the $62B Bid for Monsanto

Bayer announces specifics of its bid

(Newser) - A German company, in a country that's definitely no fan of genetically modified crops, has offered to buy the world's biggest producer of the seeds they come from for $62 billion—in cash. Bayer on Monday said its offer of $122 a share is a 37% premium over...

FDA Slaps
Birth Control Giant Over Deceptive Ads

Feb 11, 2009 9:00 AM CST

FDA Slaps Birth Control Giant Over Deceptive Ads

Bayer ordered to air clarifying spots for Yaz

(Newser) - Bayer Pharmaceuticals has just launched a $20 million ad campaign for Yaz, the country's most widely used birth control pill. But the ads aren't promoting the drug; rather, they're clarifying earlier commercials that seemed to say Yaz prevented acne and mood swings. As the New York Times reports, the FDA ...

FDA Delay
Cost 22,000 Lives: Doctor

Feb 15, 2008 7:53 AM CST

FDA Delay Cost 22,000 Lives: Doctor

Agency took a year to pull lethal heart surgery drug Trasylol

(Newser) - A prominent researcher who revealed widespread fatalities associated with the heart surgery drug Trasylol says 22,000 people died because of the FDA's delay in blowing the whistle on the drug after his study was published. Drugmaker Bayer also failed to disclose negative results of its own study. In a...

Sales of Heart-Surgery Drug Halted

Nov 5, 2007 9:35 PM CST

Sales of Heart-Surgery Drug Halted

Anti-bleeding med yanked after study shows higher death risk

(Newser) - Bayer Pharmaceuticals will suspend the sale of Trasylol, a drug used to control bleeding during heart bypass surgery, after a clinical study found that the drug puts patients at increased risk of death, the Washington Post reports. The FDA said sales of the drug would be halted at least until...