{"id":2462,"date":"2019-08-12T13:48:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T18:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2019-08-12T14:23:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T19:23:26","slug":"bayer-considers-paying-up-to-8-million-to-settle-over-18000-pending-roundup-lawsuits-amid-shareholder-revolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/bayer-considers-paying-up-to-8-million-to-settle-over-18000-pending-roundup-lawsuits-amid-shareholder-revolt\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayer Considers Paying up to $8 Billion to Settle over 18,000 Pending Roundup Lawsuits Amid \u201cShareholder Revolt\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a division of the World Health Organization, classified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iarc.fr\/featured-news\/media-centre-iarc-news-glyphosate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">glyphosate<\/a>, the active ingredient in Roundup, as a possible carcinogen. While this is not the first product that presents a risk of cancer to users, the Roundup cases are unique because so many people have been exposed to the product. Since the discovery that Roundup may cause cancer, there have been thousands of product liability lawsuits filed against Bayer, the German manufacturing giant. Bayer purchased Monsanto, the company that initially created and marketed Roundup, in 2018.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2466\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2466\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shutterstock_1314196535-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Roundup\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shutterstock_1314196535-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shutterstock_1314196535-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shutterstock_1314196535-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shutterstock_1314196535-1000x750.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shutterstock_1314196535-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Sheila Fitzgerald \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These product liability claims seek to hold the company accountable for tragic effects caused by its herbicide, which the company did not disclose to consumers. Over the past few years, several of these cases went to trial, resulting in multi-million-dollar verdicts, totaling over $2 billion to date.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/bayer-considers-paying-up-to-8-million-to-settle-over-18000-pending-roundup-lawsuits-amid-shareholder-revolt\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Bayer Considers Paying up to $8 Billion to Settle over 18,000 Pending Roundup Lawsuits Amid \u201cShareholder Revolt\u201d\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a division of the World Health Organization, classified glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, as a possible carcinogen. 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