The Missouri Supreme Court on Sept. 30 declined to hear an appeal regarding a May decision by the Western District Court of Appeals ordering Bayer to pay a $600 million Missouri court judgment that found Roundup causes cancer.
The jury award was reduced from the original lawsuit that awarded four plaintiffs $1.56 billion. “We continue to believe that significant and reversible errors were committed during trial and the appellate phase and warrant review by a higher court,” the company told The Missouri Independent. Bayer has paid out about $11 billion to settle almost 100,000 lawsuits with approximately 61,000 pending, according to the Lawsuit Information Center.
