Children's Health Defense After years of large jury awards, preemptive settlements, and lost appeals in cases involving exposure to the weedkiller glyphosate, Bayer/Monsanto is trying to stop the company’s financial hemorrhaging with a state-by-state strategy to deny victims access to the courts.
Editor’s note: On Tuesday, the Iowa State Senate passed a bill to protect pesticide manufacturers from liability. The bill will now go to the House for a vote.
State legislation to quash lawsuits against chemical manufacturers because of their “failure to warn” about the hazards of their pesticide products is moving forward in seven state legislatures (Iowa, Missouri, Idaho, Florida, North Dakota, Tennessee and Oklahoma) across the U.S.
After three bills failed to pass (Mississippi, Wyoming and Montana) and one bill is awaiting signature into law by the governor’s office (Georgia), Beyond Pesticides, working with a broad coalition, is pushing back. (See Beyond Pesticides’ Failure to Warn resource hub, background materials and opportunities for action.)
If adopted, the “immunity from litigation” legislation would set a dangerous precedent for state common law claims against any manufacturers of products with toxic ingredients.
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