Bayer Weighs ‘Texas Two-Step’ Bankruptcy Filing Over Roundup March 15, 2024 By Jef Feeley, Tim Loh and Crystal Tse Bayer AG is weighing whether to use a controversial legal maneuver known as the Texas Two-Step bankruptcy to try to...
Bayer’s Billions in Roundup Verdicts Increase Pressure for New Legal Strategy January 31, 2024 By Jef Feeley and Tim Loh Bayer AG faces mounting pressure to come up with a new plan for handling its Roundup weedkiller litigation after getting...
Even With $11 Billion Settlement, Bayer Still Has 30,000 Claims to Roundup June 26, 2020 By Jef Feeley, Tim Loh and Tim Bross While Bayer AG said it took a major step toward wrapping up litigation over its Roundup weedkiller with a settlement...
Trials Over Bayer’s Roundup Weedkiller Delayed for Mediation Talks December 6, 2019 By Tim Loh Bayer AG agreed to postpone two upcoming U.S. trials involving its Roundup weedkiller to allow time for mediation talks on...
Bayer Proposes to Settle U.S. Roundup Lawsuits for $8 Billion: Bloomberg August 9, 2019 By Jef Feeley, Joel Rosenblatt and Tim Loh Bayer AG is proposing to pay as much as $8 billion to settle more than 18,000 U.S. lawsuits alleging its...
Roundup Not Only Monsanto Legal Woe For Bayer; PCB Claims Still Coming July 24, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Tim Loh The widening legal nightmare over Roundup weedkillers isn’t the only potential multi-billion-dollar liability Bayer AG inherited last year when it...
Ex-Coal Boss Blankenship Announces U.S. Senate Run From West Virginia November 30, 2017 By Ari Natter and Tim Loh Donald Blankenship, the former Massey Energy chief executive who went to prison in the wake of a 2010 mine explosion...
Fatalities Rising as Coal Mine Production Increases August 8, 2017 By Tim Loh Ray Hatfield Jr. was six months into his latest coal job when he was crushed to death in a Kentucky...
Flood Threat Subsiding Near New Orleans, Baton Rouge January 14, 2016 By Tim Loh The threat of flooding is subsiding across the lower Mississippi River region just two weeks after high waters devastated parts...
Mississippi Floodwaters Head South; Officials Weigh Options January 6, 2016 By Tim Loh As floodwaters move south along the Mississippi River, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers is weighing steps it could take...