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...The jury awarded John McKivision, 49, of Pennsylvania $250mn in compensatory damages and ruled Bayer should have to pay an additional $2bn in punitive damages, according to Tom Kline, co-lead counsel with...
...One scoop to start: EG Group is in talks to offload some UK assets to billionaire co-founder Zuber Issa in what the company told investors was an attempt to reduce the debt pile of its petrol-station empire...
...Bayer paid $65bn for Monsanto assets that included a glyphosate weedkiller called Roundup....
...Here’s a roundup of the key developments, as of 8:00 GMT: Israel said on Saturday evening that its military forces were preparing to implement a “wide range of operational offensive plans”, ahead of an...
...But the deal, masterminded by Bayer’s former chief Werner Baumann, has instead saddled the German company with debt and a vast legal fight in the US over Monsanto’s allegedly carcinogenic weedkiller Roundup...
...Letter in response to this article: Sweetener controversy puts beverage industry on notice / From Jack Scott, Co-Founder, Dash Water, London W1, UK...
...It also invested in Bayer, which owns Monsanto and the weedkiller Roundup....
...Ubben co-founded ValueAct in 2000, mixing value investments in misunderstood midsized public companies with a focus on shareholder activism....
...It makes the herbicide Roundup, which US courts have linked to cancer. The cost of eventual legal outcomes cannot be priced accurately. Bayer has set aside $16bn so far for Roundup legal action....
...“It’s a matter of talking to neighbours and co-ordinating with them to plant hedges and wildlife corridors.”...
...Drug breakthroughs will be buried deep in most media roundups of 2022. But they will benefit humanity more in the long run than any superpower summit, movie release or football match....
...legal battle in the US stemming from its $63bn acquisition in 2016 of seedmaker Monsanto, a controversial deal that has left the German group exposed to litigation over an allegedly cancerous weedkiller Roundup...
...Wisner was co-lead counsel in 2019 lawsuits against Bayer and its new owner Monsanto over claims the Roundup weedkiller had caused cancer....
...The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Germany’s Bayer over a landmark ruling that awarded $25mn to a man who claimed the weedkiller Roundup had caused his cancer, in a move that could...
...And second, US activist investor Jeff Ubben has taken a $500mn stake in Bayer, the German conglomerate still reeling from litigation over its weedkiller Roundup and years of shareholder discontent....
.... ★★★★☆ To September 18, almeida.co.uk Hungry Paines Plough Roundabout, touring On the surface, Chris Bush’s new play Hungry is a love story, but it’s also a battlefield — an ambitious drama where two...
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...Referring to a commonly used weedkiller, he adds: “You walk in and think, it looks like someone’s put Roundup on it.” Yet Lindley considers himself one of the lucky ones....
...Pandemic teaches Go Ape’s co-founders the value of employee ownership Rebecca and Tristram Mayhew changed their succession plans after seeing how committed staff were in the crisis....
...There she showed that Roundup killed the fungi that seedlings needed, and left monocultures that were vulnerable to pathogens....
...Protecting the livelihoods of India’s waste-pickers while recycling trash was a key concern of the study co-authored by Fiona Marshall of the University of Sussex, UK, one of the four finalists....
...Ever since Washington and Bogotá signed their landmark co-operation pact, Plan Colombia, at the turn of the century, the two nations have worked hand in hand to combat drug-trafficking....
...“In 2019 alone, plaintiffs’ attorneys and their surrogates spent an estimated $100m on TV ads attacking Roundup,” he said....
...The catalyst for the extraordinary rebuke by shareholders was an avalanche of legal cases in the US in which Monsanto’s key product, the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup, was alleged to be carcinogenic...
...One thing to start: Bayer will pay up to $10.9bn to settle a wave of lawsuits over the potential carcinogenic effects of its pesticide product Roundup, relating to its takeover of US agrichemical company...
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