{"id":36189,"date":"2020-06-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/24\/bayer-to-pay-10-billion-to-settle-roundup-lawsuits\/"},"modified":"2020-06-25T16:10:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T16:10:08","slug":"bayer-to-pay-10-billion-to-settle-roundup-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/24\/bayer-to-pay-10-billion-to-settle-roundup-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayer to Pay &#36;10 Billion to Settle Roundup Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Amount includes &#36;1.25 billion for potential future claims from people who used Roundup<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, June 24, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Bayer has agreed to pay more than $10 billion to settle thousands of U.S. lawsuits alleging that its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer.<\/p>\n<p>That amount includes $1.25 billion for potential future claims from people who used Roundup and may develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the coming years, <i>The New York Times<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Bayer bought Roundup manufacturer Monsanto in 2018 and has maintained that Roundup is safe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s rare that we see a consensual settlement with that many zeros on it,&#8221; Nora Freeman Engstrom, a professor at Stanford University Law School, told <i>The Times<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/24\/business\/roundup-settlement-lawsuits.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>The New York Times<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amount includes &#36;1.25 billion for potential future claims from people who used Roundup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":36205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-36189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}