Farmers and food exporters nationwide have suffered substantial economic losses in 2014 due to China’s rejection of Syngenta Viptera corn seed, a genetically modified corn crop that has widely contaminated most of the U.S. corn supply.…
2017 was marked by a number of high-profile jury verdicts which often awarded plaintiffs tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, of dollars for physical and financial injuries and illnesses caused by drugs, pollution and other products…
A $1.4 billion settlement agreement will resolve tens of thousands of claims by U.S. farmers who say they lost money when Syngenta rolled out its genetically modified Viptera corn seed without first making sure it had approval to be sold in China, the largest foreign market.…
A class action lawsuit against Syngenta resulted in a $218 million verdict for farmers in the state of Kansas who say they suffered financial losses due to China rejecting the company’s genetically modified corn seed, Viptera, for several years.…
Lawsuits filed over Syngenta genetically modified corn seeds are being allowed to move forward following the company’s efforts to have them dismissed.…
Even after China’s approval of Syngenta genetically modified corn, farmers continue to file lawsuits for economic damages suffered while the corn sat in approval limbo.…
Syngenta has announced that its genetically-modified corn, the subject of a number of lawsuits, has been approved for export to China.…
With a growing number of lawsuits being filed throughout the federal court system over problems with Syngenta genetically modified (GMO) corn seeds, a panel of federal judges has decided to centralize all cases before one judge as part of a multidistrict litigation (MDL) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas.…
Both plaintiffs’ attorneys and defendants are pushing for the consolidation of lawsuits over Syngenta genetically modified corn, which farmers say the company mislead them into thinking China would accept.…
Syngenta faces a growing number of lawsuits from farmers who say the company cost them money by selling a genetically-modified breed of corn rejected in China, the larges importer of U.S. corn.…
