Blanton, Nickell, Collins, Douglas, Hanschen & Peters, LLC

$2

Class Action, Agricultural Law, Product Liability

Tentative settlement reached between Syngenta Corporation and Farmers who have been damaged economically as a result of Syngenta’s premature marketing of two genetically modified strains of corn Agrisure Viptera® and Agrisure Duracade™ that were outlawed in China.

$400

Agricultural Law, Product Liability

Monsanto’s successor Bayer AG agreed to pay up to $300 Million to soybean producers and additional amounts to producers of other non-soybean and specialty crops who suffered dicamba damage from dicamba sprayed ‘over the top’ of dicamba tolerant soybeans or cotton between 2015 and 2020. The total settlement value is expected to reach up to $400 Million.

$265

Agricultural Law, Product Liability

Jury awarded $15 Million in compensatory damages and $250 Million in punitive damages to Bader Farms, a peach grower in Southeast Missouri, in the first trial in the multidistrict litigation involving farmers suing Monsanto’s successor Bayer AG and German Chemical conglomerate BASF over crop damages from off-target movement of Dicamba Herbicide.

$173,000

Insurance Law, Life Insurance

Joseph Blanton, Shaun Hanschen and John Cozean obtained a summary judgment for a firm client in a lawsuit against a large insurance company that had denied liability under a life insurance policy. The U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Southeastern Division, ruled that the firm’s client should recover the face amount of the policy, $173,000, after finding that the client was entitled to reformation of the policy’s beneficiary form.

Arbitration, Commercial Litigation

Joseph Blanton, Bryan Nickell and Diedre Peters represented a St. Louis area client in a contested arbitration proceeding. The Firm’s client received an Arbitration Award of all of the damages claimed.

Premises Liability, Personal Injury

Attorney Joseph Blanton obtained a confidential settlement for a firm client in a premises liability case involving the construction of stairs.