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Bader Farms, Inc. et al v. Monsanto Company

  1. November 15, 2022

    Monsanto Nears Dicamba Deal After $60M Damages Redo

    Monsanto Co. told a Missouri federal judge on Monday that it expects to finalize settlement documents next week with Bader Farms, a large Missouri peach farm, in a suit alleging Monsanto's sale of herbicide-resistant seeds led neighboring farmers to spray a herbicide that damaged its crops.

  2. March 15, 2021

    8th Circ. Told $75M Dicamba Ruling Riddled With Errors

    Monsanto urged the Eighth Circuit to undo a $75 million damages award won by a Missouri farm that said the weedkiller dicamba ruined its peach trees, arguing the unconstitutionally excessive damages award for "marginally profitable peach trees" is due to "multiple remarkable errors."

  3. December 17, 2020

    Monsanto, BASF Plan Appeal Of $75M Dicamba Ruling

    Monsanto and BASF got the ball rolling on their promised appeal of a $75 million damages award for a Missouri peach farm over claims the weedkiller dicamba ruined the farm's peach trees, according to notices of appeal filed in Missouri federal court Thursday.

  4. November 25, 2020

    Monsanto, BASF Get $265M Dicamba Verdict Slashed To $75M

    A Missouri federal judge on Wednesday cut a punitive damages award that a Missouri farm won against Monsanto and BASF in a bellwether trial over claims the weedkiller dicamba ruined the farm's peach trees from $250 million to $60 million, ruling that the case involved only economic damages as opposed to physical harm.

  5. August 03, 2020

    Top Product Liability Cases Of 2020: Midyear Review

    Bayer's multibillion-dollar settlements over its weedkiller Roundup, herbicide dicamba and allegations over waterway contamination, as well as a $186 million verdict in favor of consumers who claimed that Johnson & Johnson talc products caused their cancer made Law360's list of the top product liability cases so far this year.

  6. May 27, 2020

    Car Ruling Bolsters Dicamba Punitive Damages, Farm Says

    A recent Eighth Circuit ruling in a case about a used Ferrari should support $250 million in punitive damages that a Missouri farm won against Monsanto and BASF over claims the weedkiller dicamba ruined the farm's peach trees, the farm told a Missouri federal court Wednesday.

  7. April 27, 2020

    Missouri Farm Fights BASF's Bid To Escape $250M Verdict

    A Missouri farm that won a $250 million punitive damages verdict against Monsanto and BASF in a trial over the pesticide dicamba urged a federal court not to let BASF escape that punitive damages award on Friday, arguing BASF can't shunt the sole responsibility onto Monsanto.

  8. April 21, 2020

    BASF Wants Out Of $250M Dicamba Punitive Damages Verdict

    BASF said Monday that $250 million in punitive damages awarded in a first trial in multidistrict litigation over the pesticide dicamba should be the sole responsibility of Monsanto, telling a Missouri federal judge that the jury did not find BASF responsible for those damages.

  9. April 13, 2020

    BASF Can't Skirt $250M In Dicamba Damages, Monsanto Says

    Bayer-owned Monsanto, jointly facing a $250 million punitive damages verdict over the pesticide dicamba with manufacturer BASF, urged a Missouri federal judge on Friday to reject BASF's requests to "shift" that punitive-damages burden to Monsanto only.

  10. March 30, 2020

    Monsanto Wants To Erase $265M Dicamba Verdict

    Bayer-owned Monsanto wants a federal court to erase a $265 million verdict handed down by a jury that heard claims that farmers' use of the weedkiller dicamba hurt crops on nearby farms, telling a Missouri federal judge on Friday that the liability argument the jury accepted was unprecedented.

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