Kentucky has become the most recent state to pass a bill limiting liability for pesticide manufacturers after state lawmakers overrode the Governor’s veto of SB 199. Similar to bills recently passed in Georgia and North Dakota last year, SB 199 amends Kentucky law so that a federally registered pesticide label would be considered a “sufficient warning label” for any state law concerning a “duty to warn.” The law is intended to address lawsuits filed by plaintiffs in state court who argue that a pesticide manufacturer failed to warn consumers about health risks related to the use of a particular pesticide, often when the federal registered label for the pesticide doesn’t require such a warning. Following the passage of SB 199, pesticide manufacturers that get sued for failure to warn in Kentucky will be able to rely on their federally registered pesticide labels as a complete defense.
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