Reuters – A new U.S. lawsuit accuses Bayer of illegally excluding a Virginia farm worker from a settlement over claims its Roundup herbicide causes cancer because she is not a U.S. citizen.
The complaint said Elvira Reyes-Hernandez, who used Roundup while working on tree farms before being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2019, expected to share in a US$412.8 million settlement with an average $120,000 payout.
But she said her law firms, who she is also suing, dismissed her from the case because of her Mexican citizenship in July 2021, seven months after they countersigned papers authorizing a payout.
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Now represented by Public Citizen, the advocacy group founded by Ralph Nader, the 47-year-old plaintiff said Bayer, its Monsanto business and the law firms violated federal civil rights law by preventing her from recovering for her cancer, now in remission.
