<p>作者：戴安娜·诺瓦克·琼斯</p>
<p>12 月 12 日（路透社）- 加州陪审团周五裁定，强生公司（JNJ.N）需向两名女性赔偿 4000 万美元，她们表示强生的婴儿爽身粉导致了她们的卵巢癌。</p>
<p>洛杉矶高等法院的陪审团裁定，莫妮卡·肯特获得 1800 万美元，德博拉·舒尔茨及其丈夫获得 2200 万美元，陪审团发现强生公司多年来知道其滑石粉产品是危险的，却未能警告消费者。</p>
<p>强生公司全球诉讼副总裁埃里克·哈斯在一份声明中表示，公司计划 “立即对这一裁决提出上诉，并预计会像我们通常对待异常不利裁决那样胜诉。”</p>
<p>原告的发言人没有立即回应评论请求。</p>
<p>根据法庭记录，肯特于 2014 年被诊断为卵巢癌，舒尔茨于 2018 年被诊断。两名女性均为加州居民，表示她们在洗澡后使用强生的婴儿爽身粉长达 40 年。她们在审判中作证称，卵巢癌的治疗涉及重大手术和数十轮化疗。</p>
<p>在路透社通过法庭视角网络观看的闭幕辩论中，女性的律师安迪·伯奇菲尔德告诉陪审团，强生早在 1960 年代就知道其产品可能导致癌症。</p>
<p>“他们绝对知道，他们知道，并且他们正在尽一切努力掩盖这一点，掩埋关于危险的真相，” 伯奇菲尔德说。</p>
<p>强生公司的律师艾莉森·布朗表示，唯一告诉肯特和舒尔茨她们的癌症是由滑石引起的，是她们的律师，因为这种所谓的联系并没有得到任何主要美国健康机构的支持，也没有研究表明滑石可以从身体外部迁移到生殖器官。</p>
<p>“他们在这个案件中没有证据，他们希望你们不介意，” 布朗对陪审团说。</p>
<p>根据法庭文件，强生公司面临来自超过 67,000 名原告的诉讼，他们表示在使用强生的婴儿爽身粉和其他滑石产品后被诊断为癌症。</p>
<p>该公司表示其产品是安全的，不含石棉，也不会导致癌症。强生在 2020 年停止在美国销售滑石粉婴儿爽身粉，转而使用玉米淀粉产品。</p>
<p>强生试图通过破产解决诉讼，但这一提议已被联邦法院三次驳回，最近一次是在 4 月。破产使大多数案件处于暂停状态。布朗和肯特的案件是自最新的第 11 章破产申请被驳回以来首个进入审判的案件。</p>
<p>在破产尝试之前，强生在滑石粉审判中记录不一，曾有高达 46.9 亿美元的裁决赔偿给声称婴儿爽身粉导致卵巢癌的女性。该公司在一些审判中完全胜诉，并在上诉中减少了其他裁决。</p>
<p>大多数诉讼涉及卵巢癌索赔。声称滑石导致一种罕见且致命的癌症——间皮瘤的案件占强生面临的索赔的较小部分。该公司之前已和部分索赔达成和解，但尚未达成全国性和解，因此许多关于间皮瘤的诉讼在最近几个月已在州法院进行审判。</p>
<p>在过去一年中，强生在间皮瘤案件中遭遇了几项重大裁决，包括在 10 月洛杉矶的一项裁决超过 9 亿美元。</p>

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<p>加利福尼亚州的陪审团裁定，强生公司向两名声称其婴儿爽身粉导致卵巢癌的女性赔偿 4000 万美元。陪审团发现，强生公司知道其滑石粉产品是危险的，但未能警告消费者。强生公司计划对这一裁决提出上诉。该公司面临超过 67,000 起类似的诉讼，并试图通过破产来解决这些问题，但遭到拒绝。强生公司在 2020 年停止在美国销售基于滑石粉的婴儿爽身粉</p>

<p>By Diana Novak Jones</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>作者：戴安娜·诺瓦克·琼斯</p>
</div><p>Dec 12 (Reuters) - A California jury on Friday awarded $40 million to two women who said Johnson &amp; Johnson’s (JNJ.N) baby powder was to blame for their ovarian cancer.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>12 月 12 日（路透社）- 加州陪审团周五裁定，强生公司（JNJ.N）需向两名女性赔偿 4000 万美元，她们表示强生的婴儿爽身粉导致了她们的卵巢癌。</p>
</div><p>The jury in Los Angeles Superior Court awarded $18 million to Monica Kent and $22 million to Deborah Schultz and her husband after finding that Johnson &amp; Johnson knew for years its talc-based products were dangerous but failed to warn consumers.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>洛杉矶高等法院的陪审团裁定，莫妮卡·肯特获得 1800 万美元，德博拉·舒尔茨及其丈夫获得 2200 万美元，陪审团发现强生公司多年来知道其滑石粉产品是危险的，却未能警告消费者。</p>
</div><p>Erik Haas, Johnson &amp; Johnson’s worldwide vice president of litigation, said in a statement the company plans to “immediately appeal this verdict and expect to prevail as we typically do with aberrant adverse verdicts.”</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>强生公司全球诉讼副总裁埃里克·哈斯在一份声明中表示，公司计划 “立即对这一裁决提出上诉，并预计会像我们通常对待异常不利裁决那样胜诉。”</p>
</div><p>A spokesperson for the plaintiffs did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>原告的发言人没有立即回应评论请求。</p>
</div><p>Kent was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2014, according to court records. Schultz was diagnosed in 2018. Both women are California residents who say they used J&amp;J’s baby powder after bathing for 40 years. Their treatments for ovarian cancer have involved major surgeries and dozens of rounds of chemotherapy, they testified at the trial.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>根据法庭记录，肯特于 2014 年被诊断为卵巢癌，舒尔茨于 2018 年被诊断。两名女性均为加州居民，表示她们在洗澡后使用强生的婴儿爽身粉长达 40 年。她们在审判中作证称，卵巢癌的治疗涉及重大手术和数十轮化疗。</p>
</div><p>In closing arguments that Reuters viewed on Courtroom View Network, Andy Birchfield, an attorney for the women, told the jury that Johnson &amp; Johnson knew as far back as the 1960s that its product could cause cancer.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>在路透社通过法庭视角网络观看的闭幕辩论中，女性的律师安迪·伯奇菲尔德告诉陪审团，强生早在 1960 年代就知道其产品可能导致癌症。</p>
</div><p>“Absolutely they knew, they knew and they were doing everything they could to hide it, to bury the truth about the dangers,” Birchfield said.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“他们绝对知道，他们知道，并且他们正在尽一切努力掩盖这一点，掩埋关于危险的真相，” 伯奇菲尔德说。</p>
</div><p>Allison Brown, an attorney for Johnson &amp; Johnson, said the only people to tell Kent and Schultz that their cancers were caused by talc were their lawyers, as the alleged connection isn’t backed by any major U.S. health authority and there is no study that shows talc can migrate from the outside of the body to the reproductive organs.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>强生公司的律师艾莉森·布朗表示，唯一告诉肯特和舒尔茨她们的癌症是由滑石引起的，是她们的律师，因为这种所谓的联系并没有得到任何主要美国健康机构的支持，也没有研究表明滑石可以从身体外部迁移到生殖器官。</p>
</div><p>“They don’t have the evidence in this case, and they hope you don’t mind,” Brown told the jury.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“他们在这个案件中没有证据，他们希望你们不介意，” 布朗对陪审团说。</p>
</div><p>J&amp;J is facing lawsuits from more than 67,000 plaintiffs who say they were diagnosed with cancer after using its baby powder and other talc products, according to court filings.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>根据法庭文件，强生公司面临来自超过 67,000 名原告的诉讼，他们表示在使用强生的婴儿爽身粉和其他滑石产品后被诊断为癌症。</p>
</div><p>The company has said its products are safe, do not contain asbestos and do not cause cancer. J&amp;J stopped selling talc-based baby powder in the U.S. in 2020, switching to a cornstarch product.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>该公司表示其产品是安全的，不含石棉，也不会导致癌症。强生在 2020 年停止在美国销售滑石粉婴儿爽身粉，转而使用玉米淀粉产品。</p>
</div><p>J&amp;J has sought to resolve the litigation through bankruptcy, a proposal that has been rejected three times by federal courts, most recently in April. The bankruptcies had put most cases on hold. Brown and Kent’s cases are the first to go to trial since the latest Chapter 11 attempt was dismissed.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>强生试图通过破产解决诉讼，但这一提议已被联邦法院三次驳回，最近一次是在 4 月。破产使大多数案件处于暂停状态。布朗和肯特的案件是自最新的第 11 章破产申请被驳回以来首个进入审判的案件。</p>
</div><p>Before the bankruptcy attempts, J&amp;J had a mixed record in talc trials, with verdicts as high as $4.69 billion awarded to women who said baby powder caused their ovarian cancer. The company has won some trials outright and had other verdicts reduced on appeal.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>在破产尝试之前，强生在滑石粉审判中记录不一，曾有高达 46.9 亿美元的裁决赔偿给声称婴儿爽身粉导致卵巢癌的女性。该公司在一些审判中完全胜诉，并在上诉中减少了其他裁决。</p>
</div><p>The majority of lawsuits involve ovarian cancer claims. Cases alleging talc caused a rare and deadly cancer called mesothelioma make up a smaller portion of the claims J&amp;J is facing. The company has previously settled some of those claims but has not struck a nationwide settlement, so many lawsuits over mesothelioma have proceeded to trial in state courts in recent months.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>大多数诉讼涉及卵巢癌索赔。声称滑石导致一种罕见且致命的癌症——间皮瘤的案件占强生面临的索赔的较小部分。该公司之前已和部分索赔达成和解，但尚未达成全国性和解，因此许多关于间皮瘤的诉讼在最近几个月已在州法院进行审判。</p>
</div><p>In the past year, J&amp;J has been hit with several substantial verdicts in mesothelioma cases, including one for more than $900 million in Los Angeles in October.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>在过去一年中，强生在间皮瘤案件中遭遇了几项重大裁决，包括在 10 月洛杉矶的一项裁决超过 9 亿美元。</p>
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陪审团在最新的滑石粉审判中命令强生向两名女性支付 4000 万美元