On January 18, 2019, Monsanto filed a motion to reverse bifurcate the trial in Pilliod v. Monsanto Company, a case that is pending in the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Alameda before Judge Winifred Y. Smith. This motion follows an earlier ruling in the MDL in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to reverse bifurcate the Hardeman, Stevick and Gebeyehou cases.
Bayer continues to make progress on its five-point plan to manage and mitigate the risks of Roundup™ litigation in the U.S. We settled most of the claims in this litigation and have appropriately provisioned for the remaining claims. Having won most trials, the company will continue to try cases based on decades of science and worldwide regulatory assessments that continue to support Roundup’s safety and non-carcinogenicity.