{"id":19345,"date":"2019-05-22T13:08:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T21:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/lawyer-who-handled-sept-11-victims-fund-to-mediate-talks-between-bayer-plaintiffs\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T13:08:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T21:08:48","slug":"lawyer-who-handled-sept-11-victims-fund-to-mediate-talks-between-bayer-plaintiffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/lawyer-who-handled-sept-11-victims-fund-to-mediate-talks-between-bayer-plaintiffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer Who Handled Sept. 11 Victims Fund To Mediate Talks Between Bayer, Plaintiffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kenneth Feinberg has been called on to tackle the emotionally grueling job of figuring out the monetary value of victims’ lives following a slew of tragedies. And now, a federal judge in California has appointed the prominent attorney to do it again. <\/p>\n

This time, Feinberg will serve as mediator for court-mandated settlement talks between Bayer and people who say the company’s glysophate-based weedkiller, Roundup, gave them cancer, The Associated Press reports. <\/p>\n

Judge Vince Chhabria, who is hearing a group of lawsuits against Bayer in San Francisco, ordered lawyers for the company and for the plaintiffs to meet over the next 14 days. <\/p>\n

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As NPR’s Richard Gonzales reported<\/a> earlier this month, “a California jury awarded a couple more than $2 billion in a verdict against Monsanto, a subsidiary of Bayer. This is the third recent court decision involving claims that the company’s Roundup weedkiller caused cancer.” <\/p>\n

The company is appealing each of the verdicts and insists there is no link between Roundup and the illnesses. <\/p>\n