Calif. jury orders Chevron to pay $21M for cancer claims

摘要

A Northern California jury ordered Chevron Corp. to pay the families of two brothers who died of cancer acombined $21.4 million after concluding the company failed to properly warn the men about the dangers of atoxic solvent they worked with at a company-owned tire factory.The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the Contra Costa County jury's verdict Friday came after three daysof deliberations and four weeks of trial.The jury concluded that the solvent benzene caused the cancers that killed brothers Gary Eaves and RandyEaves. The brothers worked at a tire manufacturer in Arkansas owned by Unocal for decades. San Ramon,Calif.-based Chevron purchased Unocal in 2005. Both brothers at times worked as a "spray booth operator"responsible for spraying the solvent on tires. Gary also hauled tires coated in benzene.