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Bayer

15 incidents / jurisdictions: United States / sum of amounts reported: USD 11.87 bn

DateJurisdictionOutcomeWhat happened (source)Damages / settlement / fine
2026-05-20United StatesSettlementAntitrust Division Secures Seed Tying and Loyalty Program Commitments from Bayer
U.S. Department of Justice
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2026United StatesJudgment for company / dismissedIn June 2026, Bayer secured an important victory before the US Supreme Court , which ruled that Bayer could not be sued under state law, thereby depriving thousands of Roundup-related lawsuits of thei
Wikipedia: Bayer(Litigation)
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2026United StatesFiled / under investigationIn January 2026, Bayer's Monsanto filed patent infringement lawsuits against Pfizer , BioNTech and Moderna over technology used in the manufacture of their COVID-19 vaccines . The lawsuits, filed in f
Wikipedia: Bayer(COVID-19 vaccine patent litigation)
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2023United StatesJudgment for company / dismissedOn 4 April 2023, a Delaware judge dismissed a lawsuit by Merck & Co 's seeking to hold Bayer responsible for more talc -related liabilities, stemming from its $14.2 billion purchase of Merck's consume
Wikipedia: Bayer(Litigation)
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2022-09-02United StatesSettlementBayer to Pay $40 Million to Resolve the Alleged Use of Kickbacks and False Statements Relating to Three Drugs
U.S. Department of Justice + 2 more reports
$40 Million
2020United StatesSettlementIn June 2020, the company agreed to pay $9.6 billion to settle more than 10,000 lawsuits claiming harm from Roundup, saying this action will result in the resolution of 75% of those claims. Bayer will
Wikipedia: Bayer(Litigation)
$9.6 billion
2020United StatesJudgment against companyOn 14 February 2020, Bayer and BASF were ordered to pay Missouri peach farmer Bill Bader $15 million in damages as a result of destruction of his peach trees which was caused by the usage of dicamba b
Wikipedia: Bayer(Litigation)
$15 million / $250 million
2020United StatesSettlementIn June 2020, Bayer agreed to a settlement of up to $400 million for all 2015 to 2020 crop year dicamba claims, not including the $265 million judgement. On 25 November 2020, U.S. District Judge Steph
Wikipedia: Bayer(Litigation)
$400 million
2020United StatesSettlementIn June 2020, Bayer agreed to pay $800 million to settle lawsuits in a variety of jurisdictions which claimed contamination of public waterways with PCBs by Monsanto before 1978. On 25 November 2020,
Wikipedia: Bayer(Litigation)
$800 million
2019United StatesSettlementIn 2019, Bayer and Johnson & Johnson (who market Xarelto together) settled around 25,000 lawsuits on the blood thinning drug Xarelto (rivaroxaban) by agreeing to disburse $775 million (US) to federal
Wikipedia: Bayer(Litigation)
$775 million
2019United StatesJudgment for company / dismissedIn 2019, a federal jury in San Francisco sided with Bayer in a $600 million (US) class action suit alleging that the company misinformed consumers by promoting its One A Day vitamins as supporting car
Wikipedia: Bayer(Litigation)
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2018-05-29United StatesSettlementJustice Department Secures Largest Negotiated Merger Divestiture Ever to Preserve Competition Threatened by Bayer’s Acquisition of Monsanto
U.S. Department of Justice
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2018United StatesJudgment against companyIn August 2018, two months after Bayer acquired Monsanto, a U.S. jury ordered Monsanto to pay $ 289 million to a school groundskeeper who claimed his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was caused by regularly usi
Wikipedia: Bayer(Litigation)
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2015-09-21United StatesSettlementBayer CropScience to Enhance Safeguards at Chemical Facilities in Four States to Settle Violations at a West Virginia Plant
U.S. Department of Justice
$5.6 million / $975,000
2014-09-12United StatesFiled / under investigationUnited States Seeks Civil Contempt Against Bayer Corporation for Failure to Substantiate Promotional Claims for Phillips’ Colon Health
U.S. Department of Justice + 1 more reports
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