Bayer gets preliminary approval for weedkiller class settlement

Bayer announced last month that Monsanto had put forward the settlement of up $7.25 billion, seeking to draw a line under years of costly litigation. Under the proposed agreement, Monsanto would make a series of declining annual payments for up to 21 years. Bayer has spent billions of dollars settling thousands of cases linked to Roundup since it acquired the weedkiller's producer, the US agrichemical group Monsanto, in 2018. The International Agency for Research on Cancer considers glyphosate...