Bayer gets tentative ruling for new trial in weed-killer case


Bayer AG's Monsanto unit will get a new trial on the US$250 million in punitive damages awarded by a jury to a groundskeeper who alleged the company's glyphosate-based weed killers, including Roundup, gave him cancer. FILE PHOTO: Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller atomizers are displayed for sale at a garden shop near Brussels, Belgium, November 27, 2017.



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