22-year history of breast implant litigation gives us important lessons. Specifically, scientific research must precede the trade and marketing. Even if the scientific information provided after the fact, it does not stop a disaster from a legal opening. The lack of such data in 1990 led to a 14-year ban on silicone gel implants, billions spent in two class action suits, more than 20,000 individual lawsuits, a temporary collapse of the entire industry. The following attempts to show the story:
1977: Houston won the first lawsuit attorney breast implant for Cleveland woman who claimed her implants caused pain and suffering. She got a $ 170,000 settlement from Dow Corning and the case received little publicity.
1980: Raph Naders Public Citizen Research Group sent a warning that silicone implants cause breast cancer
.1984: California lawyer won the case for Maria Stern, who claimed that she had an autoimmune disease that is caused by her breast implants. Evidence was introduced from Dow Cornings own internal documents that they were aware of high rates of rupture and gel bleed from the second generation implant. Experts theorized siliconeimmune link for the first time. A court in San Francisco has awarded $ 211,000 in damages and $ 1,500,000 in punitive damages.
1990: a television program, Face to Face with Connie Chung broadcast, discussing the dangers of silicone gel-filled breast implants. Public concern mounted, and the Congress held a hearing on the safety of breast implants.
July, 1991: Dow Corning 329 published studies of the FDA. In a separate lawsuit against Baxter / Heyer-Schulte, Alabama court awarded $ 5,400,000 in settlement Brenda Toole, who are only preliminary symptoms of systemic autoimmune disease, but the silicone in her lymph nodes. Expert witnesses said that this increased risk of developing autoimmune disease.
December 1991: Attorney Dan Bolton, who won the case for Maria Stern, has won another case of Mariann Hopkins, who claimed that she had mixed connective tissue disease was linked to her ruptured silicone breast implants
.February 1992: class action lawsuit was filed in Cincinnati by Stan Chesley. I hope to catch a woman faster than filing individual lawsuits. FDA recommends that the Council continued use of silicone implants to be limited only to rebuild. The committee also concluded that no causal link has been established between the auto-immune disease and silicone breast implants.
March, 1992: Dow Corning, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Bioplasty all left breast implant business. Dow Corning to set up fund for further research into the safety of breast implants.
April 1992: FDA set ban silicone breast implants outside of FDA-approved research. Only women are allowed to receive implants, they are subjected to breast reconstruction. All implant recipients must become part of scientific protocols.
March 1994: class action lawsuit was completed by manufacturers including Dow Corning, Baxter, Bristol-Meyers Squibb / MEC, and 3M. At 3.4 billion U.S. dollars, which was then the largest class action lawsuit in history. Women will be able to withdraw from the settlements, if they wish. Companies can also decide whether enough women register claims.
June 1994: Mayo Clinic epidemiologists published a report in the New England Journal of Medicine that there is no increased risk of connective tissue disease in women with silicone breast implants
.1995: American College of Rheumatology issued a statement that the evidence is persuasive that the implants do not cause systemic disease
.1995: American College of Rheumatology issued a statement that the evidence is persuasive that the implants do not cause systemic disease
....November 1995: the new global village has been developed without Dow Corning
.November 1995: the new global village has been developed without Dow Corning
....December 1995: More than 20 scientific studies and abstracts have been published showing no causal relationship between silicone implants and various auto-immune diseases
....September 1996: California Court of Appeals upheld the decision dismissing Dow Corning from 1800 lawsuit
....September 1996: California Court of Appeals upheld the decision dismissing Dow Corning from 1800 lawsuit
....September 1996: California Court of Appeals upheld the decision dismissing Dow Corning from 1800 lawsuit
....September 1996: California Court of Appeals upheld the decision dismissing Dow Corning from 1800 lawsuit
.......September, 1997: The Journal of the National Cancer Institute published a review of scores of medical studies concludes that breast implants do not cause breast cancer. The researchers described the evidence for linking implants to any other disease as "borderline ."
December 1998: After two years and $ 800,000, the panel of four independent experts appointed by Judge Sam C. Pointer, overseer implant lawsuits in Federal courts, concluded that scientific evidence has so far failed to show that silicone breast implants cause disease.
December 1998: After two years and $ 800,000, the panel of four independent experts appointed by Judge Sam C. Pointer, overseer implant lawsuits in Federal courts, concluded that scientific evidence has so far failed to show that silicone breast implants cause disease.
...August 2004: August 2004 was the deadline for entry to re-negotiate a global settlement with Dow Corning, which was founded after the arrival of Chapter 13 bankruptcy. By this time, most all of the individual lawsuits against Dow Corning was dropped or fell. Breast implant litigation era ended with little fanfare media.
August 2004: August 2004 was the deadline for entry to re-negotiate a global settlement with Dow Corning, which was founded after the arrival of Chapter 13 bankruptcy. By this time, most all of the individual lawsuits against Dow Corning was dropped or fell. Breast implant litigation era ended with little fanfare media.
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