On January 3, 2019, Judge Vince Chhabria issued an order to reverse bifurcate the Hardeman, Stevick and Gebeyehou v. Monsanto Co. cases, each of which is pending in the MDL in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Under reverse bifurcation, the jury will first determine if Roundup® caused the plaintiff’s cancer. If Monsanto prevails, the trial is over. If the jury finds in favor of the plaintiffs in phase one, the trial will proceed to a second phase to determine liability and damages.
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.