Bayer Wins Second Jury Verdict in California Roundup Trial (3)

Bayer AG won a second consecutive trial in California over its top-selling Roundup weedkiller as a jury rejected a woman’s claim that it caused her cancer.

The verdict Thursday in state court in San Bernardino follows a Los Angeles jury’s Oct. 5 decision rejecting a mother’s claim that her young son developed cancer from exposure to the herbicide in the family’s yard.

Bayer shares rose as much as 2.6% early Friday in Frankfurt, but they’re little changed over the past 12 months.

Bayer’s Monsanto unit previously lost all three cases that went to trial in California staring in 2018, and ...