Insights and Stories on Lawsuit

Brazil sues Syngenta for alleged environmental damage

Jul. 5, 2024 at 9:07 am CDT

Brazil's environmental agency IBAMA has sued Syngenta alleging the chemicals company caused "environmental damage" by producing and selling pesticides using much higher concentrations of a carcinogen than allowed under law, according to court documents seen by Reuters.

Farmers Edge disputes merits of claim made by former investors

Jun. 21, 2024 at 9:14 am CDT

By Geralyn Wichers

Former investors seek class action lawsuit against Farmers Edge

Jun. 18, 2024 at 4:55 pm CDT

By Geralyn Wichers

Former Manitoba man sues Bayer for causing his cancer

Jun. 11, 2024 at 7:01 pm CDT

By Don Norman

Chlormequat found in oat foods prompts U.S. lawsuits

Mar. 8, 2024 at 3:57 pm CST

By Robert Arnason

Court remedy sought for unfulfilled contracts

Jan. 8, 2024 at 3:03 pm CST

More than two dozen farmers are moving ahead with legal action against Purely Canada Foods after it failed to honour contracts for gluten-free oats. The dispute centres on 2022 gluten-free oat contracts. On March 1, 2023, the company sent a letter to the farmers saying it was voiding the contracts because oat processing machinery had failed the previous fall and it couldn’t accept the crop.

By Karen Briere

Bayer, BASF win new trial on damage award in U.S. dicamba suit

Jul. 7, 2022 at 6:00 pm CDT

Reuters — Bayer and BASF have won a new trial on US$60 million in punitive damages they were ordered to pay a Missouri peach farmer who said dicamba, a herbicide they produced, drifted onto his orchard and harmed his crops. The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that a […]

By Brendan Pierson

JBS reaches ‘icebreaker’ settlement of beef price-fixing claims

Feb. 2, 2022 at 9:49 pm CST

Reuters — JBS has agreed to pay US$52.5 million to settle litigation accusing meatpacking companies of conspiring to limit supply in the $63 billion-a-year U.S. beef market in order to inflate prices and boost profit. The preliminary settlement by the Brazilian company and its U.S. units with so-called direct purchasers […]

By jonathan-stempel

Bayer wins second straight verdict in a Roundup cancer case

Dec. 9, 2021 at 5:07 pm CST

Reuters — A California jury found that Bayer’s Roundup herbicide was not the cause of a woman’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Bayer said on Thursday, delivering the chemical giant its second trial victory over claims the popular herbicide causes cancer. The jury in San Bernardino County found that Donnetta Stephens’ cancer was […]

By Tom Hals

Bayer wins its first Roundup jury verdict in case of child’s cancer

Oct. 5, 2021 at 6:17 pm CDT

Reuters — Bayer won its first trial over claims its Roundup herbicide causes cancer after a California jury found that the herbicide was not a substantial cause of a child’s rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the company said on Tuesday. Destiny Clark alleged that her son Ezra developed Burkitt’s lymphoma […]