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Company: Bayer
Current Parent Company: Bayer
Parent at the Time of the Penalty Announcement:  subscribe to see this data field
Penalty: $9,600,000,000
Year: 2020
Date: June 24, 2020
Offense Group: safety-related offenses
Primary Offense: product safety violation
Mega-Scandal: Roundup
Violation Description: Bayer announced it would pay up to $9.6 billion to settle tens of thousands of claims that the weedkiller Roundup produced by its subsidiary Monsanto causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: (click here)
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Northern District of California
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 3:16md2741
Case Name: In Re Roundup Products Liability Litigation
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
HQ Country of Current Parent: Germany
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: chemicals
Specific Industry of Current Parent: chemicals
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.