Given the history of American courts shielding corporations from liability for harms caused by their products — and the ...

Ruth Bender was a correspondent based in Berlin who covered a broad range of topics from business over politics to social issues for The Wall Street Journal.

Monsanto Company (Monsanto), along with its ... Through its Agricultural Productivity segment, the Company manufactures Roundup brand herbicides and other herbicides and provides lawn-and-garden ...

German chemicals giant Bayer said Friday it could be forced to pull its Roundup weedkiller from the market if it is not able ...

Gabriele Steinhauser is The Wall Street Journal’s Southeast Asia bureau chief. Before that, she covered sub-Saharan Africa ...

A new first-of-its-kind law enacted in North Dakota could shield agrochemical manufacturer Bayer from lawsuits claiming it ...

Bayer, the parent company of Monsanto, the maker of Roundup, backed the bill. The Senate passed the bill last month. But the House Judiciary Committee sent the bill to summer study. The decision ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether federal law preempts thousands of state lawsuits alleging it failed to warn ...

Biotechnology company Bayer in a petition filed Friday argued that federal law prevents it from adding a label to Monsanto’s Roundup product line warning customers of alleged cancer risks of its ...