March 16, 2020
A Missouri federal court has ordered a one-month extension for class certification briefing in the multidistrict litigation over Monsanto and BASF's dicamba weed killers, which saw a $265 million verdict in its first trial in February.
February 28, 2020
A Missouri federal judge on Friday shot down a bid by BASF Corp. to get out of a $250 million punitive damages award handed down in the first trial over alleged harm caused by the weedkiller dicamba, saying BASF and Monsanto Corp. would have to share the penalty.
February 26, 2020
BASF Corp. on Tuesday told a Missouri federal court that only Monsanto Corp. should pay for a $250 million punitive damages award handed down in the first trial over alleged harm caused by the weedkiller dicamba, saying that the court had previously dismissed a claim that both were liable.
February 20, 2020
A Missouri federal judge said Thursday he's willing to consider BASF Corp.'s argument that only Monsanto Co. should be on the hook for a $250 million punitive damages award handed down in the first trial over alleged harm caused by the weedkiller dicamba.
February 16, 2020
A federal jury awarded $15 million in compensatory damages Friday and $250 million in punitive damages Saturday in the first trial over claims that dicamba makers Bayer unit Monsanto and BASF were liable for the decimation of a large Missouri peach farm due to a neighboring cotton farm's use of the weedkiller.
February 10, 2020
Monsanto asked a Missouri federal court on Friday to bar punitive damages and to enter a win for the company in an ongoing trial over a peach farm's claims that pesticides drifting from nearby fields of crops resistant to the weedkiller dicamba decimated his land.