Jury recommends $25M in Johnson & Johnson lawsuit
陪審團要求強生公司賠償2500萬美元
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.
一名婦女稱她因強生嬰兒爽身粉患上了癌症，因此起訴了強生集團，加州陪審團要求強生集團賠償該女子2500萬美元。
Jurors in Los Angeles recommended $4 million in punitive damages Thursday after finding the company acted with malice, oppression or fraud.
週四，洛杉磯的陪審員在發現強生公司帶有惡意的、壓迫的和欺詐的行為後，對強生集團罰款 400萬美元。
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，陪審團要求強生賠償原告喬安妮·安德森2170萬美元的賠償金。喬安妮•安德森患有間皮瘤，一種與石棉（爽身粉中的物質）有關的肺癌。
Johnson & Johnson was assigned 67 percent of the compensation payout, with the rest distributed among other defendants.
強生公司要支付67%的賠償金，剩下的由其他被告支付。
Johnson & Johnson said it’s disappointed in the decision and will appeal.
強生公司表示對這一判決感到不滿，並將上訴。
“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歲的喬安妮•安德森聲稱，強生公司沒有充分的警告消費者，說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.
安德森的辯護律師之一克里斯·帕納提爾說，“強生公司這數十年以來。都隱藏了監管機構對強生的測試數據，強生改變了測試結果，使其更能吸引消費者並對消費者撒謊”。
Similar allegations have led to hundreds of lawsuits against the New Jersey-based company. Jury awards have totaled hundreds of millions of dollars.
類似的指控引起了數百起針對這家總部位於新澤西的公司的訴訟。陪審團裁決賠償金額總計達數億美元。
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，洛杉磯的一名法官裁定強生公司須向一位女性顧客賠付4.17億美元，該顧客宣稱在使用強生嬰兒爽身粉等含滑石粉的女性護理產品後患上卵巢癌。
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.
法官批准了該公司的一項新的上訴，稱沒有確鑿的證據證明強生公司與惡意行為有關，並且賠償金數額過高。
“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.
該公司週四表示：“在過去50年裡，包括美國食品藥品管理局在內的受尊敬的學術機構和政府機構展開了多項獨立、非訴訟驅動的科學評估，但沒有人發現強生嬰兒爽身粉含有石棉。”
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