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Bayer Flatly Denies Its Employee’s Allegations in 2nd Oral Proceedings for Damage Suit
The second oral argument was held at the Tokyo District Court on July 17 in a damage suit filed by an employee of Bayer Yakuhin claiming that he suffered emotional distress over a scandal involving the company’s flagship anticoagulant Xarelto…
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