IN RE: DICAMBA HERBICIDES LITIGATION

  1. January 10, 2022

    Vineyards' Suit Against Monsanto, BASF Sent To State Court

    Texas vineyard owners have won their bid to go ahead in state court with their lawsuit alleging that wine grape crops were damaged by a dicamba-tolerant cotton seed system sold by Bayer Crop Science LP, Monsanto Co. and BASF Corp.

  2. March 15, 2021

    8th Circ. Told $75M Dicamba Ruling Riddled With Errors

    Monsanto urged the Eighth Circuit to undo a $75 million damages award won by a Missouri farm that said the weedkiller dicamba ruined its peach trees, arguing the unconstitutionally excessive damages award for "marginally profitable peach trees" is due to "multiple remarkable errors."

  3. December 17, 2020

    Monsanto, BASF Plan Appeal Of $75M Dicamba Ruling

    Monsanto and BASF got the ball rolling on their promised appeal of a $75 million damages award for a Missouri peach farm over claims the weedkiller dicamba ruined the farm's peach trees, according to notices of appeal filed in Missouri federal court Thursday.

  4. November 25, 2020

    Monsanto, BASF Get $265M Dicamba Verdict Slashed To $75M

    A Missouri federal judge on Wednesday cut a punitive damages award that a Missouri farm won against Monsanto and BASF in a bellwether trial over claims the weedkiller dicamba ruined the farm's peach trees from $250 million to $60 million, ruling that the case involved only economic damages as opposed to physical harm.

  5. August 03, 2020

    Top Product Liability Cases Of 2020: Midyear Review

    Bayer's multibillion-dollar settlements over its weedkiller Roundup, herbicide dicamba and allegations over waterway contamination, as well as a $186 million verdict in favor of consumers who claimed that Johnson & Johnson talc products caused their cancer made Law360's list of the top product liability cases so far this year.

  6. April 21, 2020

    BASF Wants Out Of $250M Dicamba Punitive Damages Verdict

    BASF said Monday that $250 million in punitive damages awarded in a first trial in multidistrict litigation over the pesticide dicamba should be the sole responsibility of Monsanto, telling a Missouri federal judge that the jury did not find BASF responsible for those damages.

  7. April 13, 2020

    BASF Can't Skirt $250M In Dicamba Damages, Monsanto Says

    Bayer-owned Monsanto, jointly facing a $250 million punitive damages verdict over the pesticide dicamba with manufacturer BASF, urged a Missouri federal judge on Friday to reject BASF's requests to "shift" that punitive-damages burden to Monsanto only.

  8. March 30, 2020

    Monsanto Wants To Erase $265M Dicamba Verdict

    Bayer-owned Monsanto wants a federal court to erase a $265 million verdict handed down by a jury that heard claims that farmers' use of the weedkiller dicamba hurt crops on nearby farms, telling a Missouri federal judge on Friday that the liability argument the jury accepted was unprecedented.

  9. March 16, 2020

    Class Cert. Extended In Monsanto, BASF Dicamba MDL

    A Missouri federal court has ordered a one-month extension for class certification briefing in the multidistrict litigation over Monsanto and BASF's dicamba weed killers, which saw a $265 million verdict in its first trial in February.

  10. March 12, 2020

    Farmers, Monsanto Urge Dicamba Class Cert. Extension

    Farmers suing Monsanto and BASF over the weedkiller dicamba told a Missouri federal court Thursday that BASF's criticism of a proposed delay on class certification briefing and a discovery deadline is "disingenuous."