Bayer Corp.

Bayer hires outside counsel as pressure grows following jury verdicts and continuing share loss

By John Breslin | Tuesday, Jul 2, 2019 @ 11:24am

FRANKFORT, Germany (Legal Newsline) – Chemical and agri-business conglomerate Bayer has hired outside counsel and set up a committee in response to lawsuits and its falling share price in the face of thousands of claims that a key ingredient of its Roundup weed killer causes cancer.
When it comes to Roundup and cancer, everybody's lobbying the regulators

By Daniel Fisher | Thursday, Mar 28, 2019 @ 10:13am

The federal jury that this week ordered Monsanto to pay $80 million for allegedly causing a man’s cancer likely was swayed by internal documents suggesting the unit of Bayer AG had improperly influenced regulators to keep its Roundup weedkiller from being classified a carcinogen.