Jury recommends $25M in Johnson & Johnson lawsuit
陪审团要求强生公司赔偿2500万美元
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California jury delivered a $25.7 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson in a lawsuit brought by a woman who claimed she developed cancer by using the company’s talc-based baby powder.
一名妇女称她因强生婴儿爽身粉患上了癌症，因此起诉了强生集团，加州陪审团要求强生集团赔偿该女子2500万美元。
Jurors in Los Angeles recommended $4 million in punitive damages Thursday after finding the company acted with malice, oppression or fraud.
周四，洛杉矶的陪审员在发现强生公司带有恶意的、压迫的和欺诈的行为后，对强生集团罚款 400万美元。
A day earlier, the panel called for $21.7 million in compensatory damages for plaintiff Joanne Anderson, who suffers from mesothelioma, a lung cancer linked to asbestos exposure.
一天前，陪审团要求强生赔偿原告乔安妮·安德森2170万美元的赔偿金。乔安妮•安德森患有间皮瘤，一种与石棉（爽身粉中的物质）有关的肺癌。
Johnson & Johnson was assigned 67 percent of the compensation payout, with the rest distributed among other defendants.
强生公司要支付67%的赔偿金，剩下的由其他被告支付。
Johnson & Johnson said it’s disappointed in the decision and will appeal.
强生公司表示对这一判决感到不满，并将上诉。
“We will continue to defend the safety of our product because it does not contain asbestos or cause mesothelioma,” Johnson & Johnson said in statement.
Anderson, 66, claimed Johnson & Johnson failed to adequately warn consumers that its powder contains asbestos and could cause cancer.
66岁的乔安妮•安德森声称，强生公司没有充分的警告消费者，说其爽生粉中含有可能致癌的石棉。
Johnson & Johnson “engaged in a multi-decade campaign wherein they hid testing data” from regulators, altered reports to make them more favorable and lied to consumers, said Chris Panatier, one of Anderson’s trial attorneys.
安德森的辩护律师之一克里斯·帕纳提尔说，“强生公司这数十年以来。都隐藏了监管机构对强生的测试数据，强生改变了测试结果，使其更能吸引消费者并对消费者撒谎”。
Similar allegations have led to hundreds of lawsuits against the New Jersey-based company. Jury awards have totaled hundreds of millions of dollars.
类似的指控引起了数百起针对这家总部位于新泽西的公司的诉讼。陪审团裁决赔偿金额总计达数亿美元。
Last year, a judge in Los Angeles tossed out a $417 million jury award to a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer by using Johnson & Johnson baby powder for feminine hygiene.
去年，洛杉矶的一名法官裁定强生公司须向一位女性顾客赔付4.17亿美元，该顾客宣称在使用强生婴儿爽身粉等含滑石粉的女性护理产品后患上卵巢癌。
The judge granted the company’s motion for a new trial, saying there wasn’t convincing evidence that Johnson & Johnson acted with malice and the award for damages was excessive.
法官批准了该公司的一项新的上诉，称没有确凿的证据证明强生公司与恶意行为有关，并且赔偿金数额过高。
“Over the past 50 years, multiple independent, non-litigation driven scientific evaluations have been conducted by respected academic institutions and government bodies, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and none have found that the talc in Johnson’s Baby Powder contains asbestos,” the company said Thursday.
该公司周四表示：“在过去50年里，包括美国食品药品管理局在内的受尊敬的学术机构和政府机构展开了多项独立、非诉讼驱动的科学评估，但没有人发现强生婴儿爽身粉含有石棉。”
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