Monsanto

NEW YORK -- A jury in Georgia has ordered Monsanto parent Bayer to pay nearly $2.1 billion in damages to a man who says the company's Roundup weed killer caused his cancer, according to attorneys representing the plaintiff. The verdict marks the latest in a long-running series of court battles…

I’ve been writing about rebranding IT since 1999, but today, debating a name change is almost moot. The important conversations in this new data economy are about how tech leadership can turn data into value, and how companies can completely overhaul their legacy selves. Recently, there’s been a flurry of…

Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit persuaded a Missouri judge to cut almost $1 billion from a $1.5 billion jury verdict that was one of the largest in the six years the company has been fighting thousands of claims that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer. Judge Daniel Green in Jefferson City, Missouri,…

Jurors in state court in San Diego on Tuesday awarded Michael Dennis, 57, a total of $7-million in actual damages and $325-million in punitive damages over his claims that 35 years of using Roundup on his lawns and gardens caused his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.  Until this month, Bayer had won nine…

Case Study Aug 10, 20235 mins Business IT AlignmentCIODigital Transformation The fact Eastman created a new line of business through digital products is nothing new. What is new is the business is run by IT. When Aldo Noseda became CIO at chemical manufacturer Eastman five years ago, he immediately began…

Dozens of Vermont school districts have sued chemical giant Monsanto over toxic contamination in educational buildings from now-banned industrial chemicals known as PCBs. Last year, Vermont became the first state in the country to require older schools to test their indoor air for polychlorinated biphenyls, which were used in building…

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Bayer, the German pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, will pay Oregon $698 million to end a lawsuit over PCB pollution associated with products made by Monsanto, the agriculture giant it now owns, the state’s attorney general announced Thursday. The move makes Oregon the latest U.S. state to…

/ France Issued on: 08/12/2022 - 11:32 Cereal farmer Paul François pictured at his farm in Bernac, southwestern France, on July 28, 2015. © Thibaud Moritz, AFP A French court has ordered Germany's Bayer to pay compensation of some 11,000 euros to a crop farmer for the accidental inhalation of a weedkiller produced…

Local Students have been attending classes at a former Macy’s department store. Students enter Downtown Burlington High School through a giant storefront arch, Monday, March 22, 2021, in Burlington, Vt. The building, a former Macy's store, replaced the existing Burlington High School after it was closed in August 2020 following…