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\"\"(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, June 25, 2020) Facing approximately 125,000 lawsuits on cancer caused by the weed killer Roundup™ (glyphosate<\/a>), Bayer\/Monsanto announced yesterday that it will pay up to $10.9 billion to resolve current and potential future litigation. According to Bayer, the settlement will \u201cbring closure\u201d to approximately 75% of current Roundup™ litigation. \u201cThe company will make a payment of $8.8 billion to $9.6 billion to resolve the current Roundup™ litigation, including an allowance expected to cover unresolved claims, and $1.25 billion to support a separate class agreement to address potential future litigation,\u201d according to Bayer\u2019s press release<\/a>. At the same time the company announced a $400 million settlement with farmers whose crops have been damaged by the weed killer dicamba and $820 million for PCB water litigation. Bayer is a German multinational pharmaceutical and chemical company that purchased Monsanto for $63 billion in 2018. Bayer\u2019s stock price increased by 2.5% after the news of the settlements.<\/p>\n

Bayer Settles, but Defends the Safety of Roundup<\/strong>™
<\/strong>As expected, Bayer is not acknowledging any harm caused by glyphosate. According to chief executive officer of Bayer, Werner Baumann, \u201cThe decision to resolve the Roundup™ litigation enables us to focus fully on the critical supply of healthcare and food. It will also return the conversation about the safety and utility of glyphosate-based herbicides to the scientific and regulatory arena and to the full body of science.\u201d After expressing sympathy for victims of non Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), Mr. Baumann said, \u201cThe extensive body of science indicates that Roundup™ does not cause cancer, and therefore, is not responsible for the illnesses alleged in this litigation.\u201d He continued, \u201cWe stand strongly behind our glyphosate-based herbicides, which are among the most rigorously studied products of their kind, and four decades of science support their safety and that they are not carcinogenic.\u201d He points to EPA\u2019s Interim Registration Review Decision, issued in January, which allows continued use of glyphosate.<\/p>\n

Roundup™ Causes Cancer, according to Science
<\/strong>Concern about glyphosate-based pesticides swelled when the World Health Organization\u2019s International Agency for Research on Cancer\u00a0(IARC) determined that glyphosate is a probable carcinogen<\/strong><\/a> in 2015. Beyond Pesticides has covered the relationship of glyphosate (and the\u00a0adjuvant ingredients in formulations<\/strong><\/a>) to\u00a0cancer,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0endocrine disruption,\u00a0reproduction,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0renal and hepatic damage,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in addition to its\u00a0toxicity to fish and other aquatic organisms<\/strong><\/a>. Contrary to\u00a0scientific consensus<\/strong><\/a> and to the IARC\u2019s conclu, EPA, which has experienced heightened politicization of its decisions under the Trump administration, maintains that glyphosate formulations are \u201cnot likely to be carcinogenic to humans,\u201d as it posited in a decision announced in May 2019<\/strong><\/a>. EPA took this step even in the face of an\u00a0April 2019 report by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(ATSDR) \u2014 an agency of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services \u2014 which evidenced findings that support glyphosate\u2019s carcinogenicity.<\/p>\n

The three cases that have gone to trial (see below) will continue through the appeals process and are not covered by the settlement. It is important for the company to continue these cases as the appeals will provide legal guidance going forward. In an appellate court filing, the U.S. government expressed its specific support for the company\u2019s preemption arguments, asserting that state law warning claims in the Roundup™ litigation conflict with U.S. federal law, requiring no cancer warning, and must be dismissed. Just this week, a federal judge in California found that the weight of scientific evidence does not support the state\u2019s Proposition 65 cancer warning requirement for glyphosate-based herbicides — a ruling that reinforces the very arguments the company has made at trial. Potential future cases will be governed by a class agreement which is subject to court approval. The agreement includes the establishment of a class of potential future plaintiffs and the creation of an independent Class Science Panel. The Class Science Panel will determine whether Roundup™ can cause NHL.<\/p>\n

Settlement Will Stop Jury Trials
<\/strong>Both the class and company will be bound by the Class Science Panel\u2019s determination on this question of general causation, taking this decision out of the jury trial setting, where Bayer has a poor track record. If the Class Science Panel determines that a causal connection between Roundup™ and NHL is not established, class members will be barred from claiming otherwise in any future litigation against the company. The Class Science Panel\u2019s determination is expected to take several years. Class members will not be permitted to proceed with Roundup™ claims prior to the Class Science Panel\u2019s determination, and cannot seek punitive damages. The agreed funding is capped at $1.25 billion and will support research into treatment of NHL, NHL diagnostic programs in underserved areas, and assistance payments to class members who develop NHL before the Class Science Panel\u2019s determination and are eligible on a need basis for assistance during that period.<\/p>\n

The company said that before deciding to settle, it considered the alternative course of continuing to litigate Roundup™ cases. In the company\u2019s risk assessment, the potential negative outcomes of further litigation, including more advertising and growing numbers of plaintiffs, upwards of twenty trials per year and uncertain jury outcomes, and associated reputational and business impacts, would substantially exceed the settlement and related costs.<\/p>\n

\u201cTaking account of various options, I am convinced this plan provides a comprehensive, reasonable solution to the complex, contested issues presented by this litigation,\u201d said attorney John Beisner, a consultant to Bayer\u2019s Supervisory Board and a mass tort expert who leads Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP\u2019s Mass Torts, Insurance and Consumer Litigation Practice Group.<\/p>\n

Big Jury Verdicts for Victims of Roundup<\/strong>™
<\/strong>In May 2019, a California jury awarded plaintiffs in the third damages lawsuit<\/a> on the weed killer Roundup™ over $2 billion in punitive and compensatory damages. The jury found that Monsanto \u201cengaged in conduct with malice, oppression or fraud committed by one or more officers, directors or managing agents of Monsanto.\u201d Plaintiffs Alva and Alberta Pilliod, a couple in their seventies, used Roundup™, with the active ingredient glyphosate, since the 1970s to maintain their yard around their home and other properties that they owned. The couple did not wear protective gear when using Roundup™ because Monsanto marketed the product as \u201csafe.\u201d Mrs. Pilliod was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in 2011; Mr. Pilliod\u2019s diagnosis followed in 2015. The Pilliod v. Monsanto jury came to its decision based on evidence, not only of the herbicide\u2019s carcinogenicity, but also of Monsanto\u2019s role in suppressing and discrediting independent findings regarding Roundup™ toxicity. In an interview with U.S. Right to Know\u2019s Carey Gillam, co-lead trial counsel Michael Miller said, \u201cUnlike the first two Monsanto trials, where the judges severely limited the amount of plaintiffs\u2019 evidence, we were finally allowed to show a jury the mountain of evidence showing Monsanto\u2019s manipulation of science, the media and regulatory agencies to forward their own agenda despite Roundup\u2019s severe harm to the animal kingdom and humankind.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pilliod trial adds to the growing list of major wins for plaintiffs who attribute their suffering from cancer to Monsanto\u2019s \u201cmalice, oppression or fraud.\u201d In the summer of 2018, California groundskeeper Dewayne \u201cLee\u201d Johnson won a $289 million jury verdict against Monsanto for his development of NHL after consistent exposure to Roundup™. The jury awarded him $39 million in compensatory damages, and $250 million in punitive damages, finding that Monsanto acted with \u201cmalice or oppression.\u201d That amount was later amended by the judge to a total of $78 million. In the second federal court case, again in California, the jury found unanimously that Edwin Hardeman\u2019s development of NHL was substantially caused by Roundup™ and awarded him $80 million.<\/p>\n

Misleading on \u201cSustainable Agriculture\u201d
<\/strong>Bayer, which expresses a long-term commitment to \u201csustainable agriculture,\u201d continues to push genetic engineering and herbicide tolerant crops, despite increasing weed resistance to glyphosate that threatens farmers\u2019 financial viability. In fact, on June 3, the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated EPA\u2019s 2018 conditional registration of three\u00a0dicamba<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0weed killer products for use on an estimated 60 million acres of DT (dicamba-tolerant through genetic modification\/engineering) soybeans and cotton, pointing to the crop damage caused by the herbicide.<\/p>\n

Calling for a Transformation to Organic
<\/strong>The tragedy caused by glyphosate and dicamba represents the tip of the iceberg that is chemical-intensive agriculture. While the litigation costs and jury verdicts on individual pesticides create an economic disincentive for continued production of hazardous pesticides and chemical-dependency in agriculture, the Bayer settlement indicates that it is not the silver bullet to put an end to continued hazardous pesticide use\u2014even continued use of the chemical at issue, glyphosate. And, as a federal court decision banning three dicamba products was being announced this month, new formulations of dicamba and new herbicide-tolerant crops were being brought on to the market. This phenomenon\u2014the pesticide treadmill\u2014kicks the toxic pesticide can down the road, as the next generation of hazardous pesticides are developed for no other reason than the profits captured by multinational corporations and their shareholders. Meanwhile, the hazards associated the toxic chemicals being developed and spread across the environment are raising complex challenges for the sustainability of life on an individual and global scale. The use of these chemicals is unnecessary to meet our food production and quality of life needs because there are viable alternatives that are compatible with biological systems. Beyond Pesticides calls for the urgent adoption of organic practices in the management of agriculture, landscapes, and buildings. Join Beyond Pesticides\u2019 campaign to transition society to organic on farms<\/a> and in communities<\/a>. Have a pest problem? Solve it without toxic chemicals; see ManageSafe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n

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