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The risk of absolute product liability

October 16, 2020 in In The News

Daily Journal | Glenn Lammi

The California Supreme Court will soon decide whether to review Johnson v. Monsanto, a product-liability case that spawned tens of thousands of similar lawsuits. In Johnson, the California Court of Appeal affirmed that the manufacturer of Roundup, an herbicide containing glyphosate, was liable for plaintiff Dewayne Johnson’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Among the many reasons the court should grant Monsanto’s petition, one stands out as especially critical for both manufacturers and consumers. The appeals court’s standard for reviewing the jury’s failure-to-warn decision threatens to transform traditional product liability into absolute liability.

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November 10, 2020
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Five-Point Plan to address potential future Roundup™ claims

Bayer announced a series of actions it plans to implement following the denial of the motion to preliminarily approve the Roundup™ class settlement agreement. The package of five legal and commercial actions is designed to help the company achieve a level of risk mitigation that is comparable to the previously proposed national class solution.

Read about the five-point plan here.

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