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Company: Bayer Healthcare LLC
Current Parent Company: Bayer
Penalty: $1,125,000
Year: 2021
Date: December 16, 2021
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Secondary Offense: false advertising
Violation Description: Bayer and Beiersdorf together agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle litigation alleging they misled customers when describing Coppertone sunscreen as mineral-based. Court documents did not specify how much each company would pay. Here we assume they each paid half of the total.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Northern District of California
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 5:20-cv-00102
Case Name: Prescott et al v. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. et al
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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