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San Francisco (AP) - The agrochemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer has also suffered a defeat in the second of its US appeal proceedings because of alleged cancer risks of the weed killer glyphosate.
The responsible court in San Francisco confirmed a judgment on Friday according to which Bayer had to pay plaintiff Edwin Hardeman a total of a good 25 million dollars (20.6 million euros) in damages.
Hardeman had blamed the glyphosate-containing weed killer Roundup of the US seed giant Monsanto, which Bayer acquired in 2018 for over 60 billion dollars, responsible for its cancer.
A jury in 2019 initially imposed fines of a good $ 80 million on Bayer.
The amount was later significantly reduced.
The group had appealed anyway.
Bayer is confronted with numerous glyphosate lawsuits in the United States, which the company intends to settle with a settlement worth billions.
So far, only three cases have been heard in courts, and the Dax group lost all three.
Bayer has not yet had any success in appeals.
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Bayer did not initially provide a statement.
The glyphosate problem taken over with the Monsanto purchase makes the group difficult to create.
In the United States, more than 125,000 plaintiffs have filed claims for damages.
Bayer wants to take more than eleven billion dollars in hand to settle the mass proceedings.
But an important part of the settlement still requires judicial approval.
An important hearing on this is due on May 19.
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