February 7, 2012


Bayer must pay $1M to farmer

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — A Wooodruff County Circuit Court jury has ordered Bayer CropScience LP to pay a rice farmer more than $1 million in a lawsuit over experimental rice variety.

The decision Monday awards $532,643 in compensatory damages and $500,000 in punitive damages to Lenny Joe Kyle. The jury found Kyle suffered losses when the German corporation’s experimental variety of genetically modified rice was mixed with the rice supply.

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The decision Monday awards $532,643 in compensatory damages and $500,000 in punitive damages to Lenny Joe Kyle. The jury found Kyle suffered losses when the German corporation’s experimental variety of genetically modified rice was mixed with the rice supply.

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The decision Monday awards $532,643 in compensatory damages and $500,000 in punitive damages to Lenny Joe Kyle. The jury found Kyle suffered losses when the German corporation’s experimental variety of genetically modified rice was mixed with the rice supply.

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The decision Monday awards $532,643 in compensatory damages and $500,000 in punitive damages to Lenny Joe Kyle. The jury found Kyle suffered losses when the German corporation’s experimental variety of genetically modified rice was mixed with the rice supply.

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