December 10, 2025
Pesticide companies Syngenta and Corteva are facing damages claims of more than $1.2 billion and $883 million claim, respectively, according to class certification bids filed by farmers looking to represent the hundreds of thousands of pesticide buyers allegedly harmed by rebate programs that paid distributors to forgo cheaper generics.
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“The central question—whether Syngenta engaged in anticompetitive conduct to exclude lower-priced generics—is common to all class members and can be proven with classwide evidence,” the farmers said in the Syngenta brief. “The evidence shows Syngenta executed an illegal, multi-year scheme with national distributors and retailers to foreclose generic entry and create a de facto monopoly for products containing at-issue [active ingredients].”
Like the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general have alleged in their suits, the farmers in the multidistrict litigation have alleged Corteva and Syngenta use loyalty programs to artificially extend their patent monopolies over certain pesticides by offering payments to distributors that agree to limit their sales of cheaper generic products.
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In the certification bids first filed under seal last month, the farmers moved to name two classes against each pesticide company. One class would represent damage claims under the in-play state laws while the other would cover a nationwide class seeking injunctive relief.
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The farmers are represented by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Lowey Dannenberg PC, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Korein Tillery LLC and Pinto Coates Kyre & Bowers PLLC.
Read Syngenta, Corteva Face Class Cert. Bids For $2B In Damages.