Bayer AG shareholders are daring to imagine a future free of the litigation that has dogged the pharma group’s Roundup weedkiller. It’s an increasingly plausible scenario, and one investors are itching to price in. Evidence is mounting that the German...
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For Bayer, a Roundup Deal Would Be Billions Well Spent
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh Files Charges Against Opioid Manufacturer Purdue Pharma, Related Entities
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh announced Wednesday that his office has filed charges against opioid manufacturers Purdue Pharma, L.P., Rhodes Pharmaceuticals and related entities. The charges allege that the companies engaged in a scheme to market prescription opioids...
Continue Reading →Pradaxa – Conn. Bellwether Trial Verdict: Plaintiff Awarded $542K
On Friday, May 17, a Connecticut jury awarded $542K over the alleged bleeding risk caused by blood thinner Pradaxa. According to the trial, the lawsuit was filed in May 2016 alleging that the plaintiff, Gino Roberto, had a 40-year history of...
Continue Reading →Unprecedented Lawsuit Could End Water Fluoridation in US Based on Neurotoxicity Studies
On November 22, 2016, a coalition including FAN, Food & Water Watch, Organic Consumers Association, American Academy of Environmental Medicine, International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, Moms Against Fluoridation and several individual mothers, filed a petition calling on the...
Continue Reading →In Latest Roundup Herbicide Defeat for Bayer, Jury Awards California Couple $2 Billion
BILLION WITH A B! A jury in Oakland, California, has awarded a couple $2 billion in punitive damages after concluding that sustained exposure to Monsanto Co.’s popular Roundup weed killer led to their cancer diagnoses. The couple will receive an...
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