Monsanto and its parent Bayer recently announced that they had reached a proposed class action settlement to resolve most claims alleging Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) caused by exposure to Roundup weed killer. See King v. Monsanto, No. 2622-CC00325 (Mo. Circ. Ct. Feb. 17, 2026). Over 52,000 Roundup claims based on NHL involving over 125,000 plaintiffs have been filed since 2015. The new settlement (proposed under Missouri’s analogue to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3)) would require Monsanto to make $7.25 billion in total payments over a 16-year period. The details of ...
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