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Bayer wins Roundup weedkiller cancer trial while awaiting settlement ruling
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NEW YORK –
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Bayer → win → ruling
Bayer won a trial on Oct 29 over claims by three women that its Roundup weedkiller caused their cancer, while awaiting a broader ruling from a separate court on the company’s US$7.25 billion (S$9 billion) effort to settle other Roundup cases.
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weedkiller → win → cases
The trial was a test for the continued viability of Roundup lawsuits after a US Supreme Court ruling in Bayer’s favour limited the legal claims that plaintiffs can bring.
Bayer is also separately seeking to resolve tens of thousands of other Roundup lawsuits through a proposed US$7.25 billion settlement, which is under review by a Missouri state court judge in St Louis.
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which → limit → Louis
A St Louis jury unanimously ruled for Bayer-owned Monsanto in the first case to go to trial after June’s Supreme Court ruling.
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Monsanto → rule → ruling
The litigation has weighed on Bayer since its 2018 acquisition of Monsanto, costing the company billions of dollars and driving down its share price.
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litigation → weigh → price
Bayer shares rose 4% to a one-month high at 1011 GMT (6.11pm in Singapore).
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shares → rise → Singapore
Markus Manns, a portfolio manager at Frankfurt-based Union Investment, said the verdict was one of the most important trial wins for the company.
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verdict → base → company
“Plaintiffs have failed in their new litigation strategy to prove that Bayer had ignored the risks as early as the development stage of glyphosate,” he said.
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he → fail → glyphosate
Bill Dodero, Bayer’s US general counsel and global head of litigation, said the verdict showed how difficult it would be for other plaintiffs to win cases after the Supreme Court ruling.
“This verdict should send a strong signal that plaintiffs who wish to pursue claims in the court system following the Durnell ruling will face significant challenges both in demonstrating they have viable claims and putting forth the necessary evidence to prove them in court,” he said in a statement.
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he → say → statement
Plaintiffs sued in 2020
Plaintiffs Theresa Aretino, Cynthia Fernandez and Betty Larkin sued Bayer unit Monsanto in 2020 in St Louis, saying they used Roundup regularly and later developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
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they → sue → lymphoma
Their attorneys argued that Roundup was defectively designed and unreasonably dangerous, and that Bayer was negligent in selling it.
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Bayer → argue → it
The three women are not participating in Bayer’s proposed settlement.
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women → participate → settlement
Fernandez died before the trial began.
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trial → die → ?
Reuters viewed the trial and verdict on Courtroom View Network.
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Reuters → view → Network
Attorneys for Aretino, Fernandez and Larkin did not immediately respond to a request for comment late on Oct 29.
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Attorneys → respond → Oct
Bayer has denied the claims and said that decades of studies have shown glyphosate, Roundup’s active ingredient, is safe and does not cause cancer.
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glyphosate → deny → cancer
Bayer faces around 65,000 claims in US state and federal courts from plaintiffs who say they developed cancer after using Roundup at home or on the job.
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they → face → job
Before the Supreme Court ruling in 2026, most lawsuits had alleged that Roundup’s label failed to warn consumers about cancer risks.
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label → allege → risks
But the court blocked those legal arguments in June, ruling that federal law requires herbicide makers to use the exact label approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
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law → block → Agency
The EPA has concluded that Roundup’s label does not require a cancer warning.
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label → conclude → warning
Bayer has argued that other legal claims, including design-defect and negligence, are also foreclosed by the US Supreme Court’s ruling, but plaintiffs’ attorneys have argued that those claims are not affected by the ruling.
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claims → argue → ruling
The EPA has previously concluded that glyphosate is probably not carcinogenic, but it is in the middle of a new review of its safety.
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it → conclude → safety
In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded that glyphosate was “probably carcinogenic” to humans, but Bayer has said that is an outlier opinion based on flawed methodology.
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that → conclude → methodology
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