Feb 25 (Reuters) – Law firms representing nearly 20,000 people who sued Bayer over alleged injuries from its Roundup weedkiller urged a Missouri judge on Wednesday to delay reviewing the German company’s proposed $7.25 billion nationwide settlement, arguing that rushing would violate the rights of tens of thousands of cancer patients and their families.
In a filing in a state court in St Louis, the firms said the accord should not be fast-tracked for possible preliminary approval on March 4, fifteen days after the proposed settlement was announced.
The request is the first major organized pushback against Bayer’s attempt to resolve most of the 65,000 remaining Roundup claims in state and federal courts.
(Reporting by Diana Novak Jones in Chicago, Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi)
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