Bayer vowed to keep defending its weedkiller Roundup after losing a second US trial over claims it causes cancer, indicating that the embattled company isn't yet ready to consider spending billions of dollars to settle thousands of similar lawsuits. "You can't keep trying case after case after case and keep losing and say, 'we're not going to settle'," said Thomas Rohback, a trial lawyer at Axinn in New York. If Bayer continues to lose at trial, it "has to put the possibility of a settlement of these cases into the mix". The jury found that there's a defect in Roundup, that Bayer failed to warn of the product's risks and that the company was negligent. The Roundup verdict is the third-largest product liability jury award in the US so far in 2019, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Source: Stuff March 28, 2019 21:03 UTC