Lawyers for US cancer sufferers challenge Bayer’s $7.25bn Roundup settlement deal

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Proposed settlement would pay users of glyphosate-based weedkiller with non-Hodgkin lymphoma $10,000-$165,000A group of 14 law firms representing nearly 20,000 plaintiffs is seeking to intervene in Bayer’s proposed class-action settlement of Roundup litigation, citing concerns that the deal will not be fair to cancer sufferers.The group filed both a motion to intervene and a motion for an extension of time for court preliminary approval of the deal in St Louis city circuit court in Missouri late on 24 February.This story is co-published with the New Lede, a journalism project of the Environmental Working Group Continue reading...

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Proposed settlement would pay users of glyphosate-based weedkiller with non-Hodgkin lymphoma $10,000-$165,000A group of 14 law firms representing nearly 20,000 plaintiffs is seeking to intervene in Bayer’s proposed class-action settlement of Roundup litigation, citing concerns that the deal will not be fair to cancer sufferers.The group filed both a motion to intervene and a motion for an extension of time for court preliminary approval of the deal in St Louis city circuit court in Missouri late on 24 February.This story is co-published with the New Lede, a journalism project of the Environmental Working Group Continue reading...