Roundup’s $7.25 Billion Settlement Receives Preliminary Approval From Missouri Judge

The settlement aims to resolve the majority of roughly 65,000 claims that are still pending in federal and state courts.

An employee adjusts Roundup products on a shelf at a store in San Rafael, Calif., on July, 9, 2018. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images

A proposed $7.25 billion settlement to resolve thousands of lawsuits that allege Bayer’s Roundup weedkiller causes cancer received initial approval from a state court judge in Missouri on March 4.

St. Louis-based Judge Timothy Boyer gave preliminary approval to the settlement that the German-based agrochemical company proposed last month. Bayer negotiated the deal with lawyers seeking to represent a nationwide class of plaintiffs accusing the company’s Roundup weedkiller of causing their non-Hodgkin lymphoma.