Dow Corning: Silicone Breast Implants

                Dow Corning: Silicone Breast Implants

In 1998, Dow Corning was reached a settlement in which it agreed to pay $2 billion as part of a larger $4.25 billion class action suit filed by customers who claimed that their silicone breast implants were rupturing, causing injury, bodily damage, scleroderma and death.

A large number of reports from different doctors, showed that women with silicone implants Dow Corning, had fatigue, artitis or cancer because of breaks in the implants. However there was no evidence that diseases were caused by leaking implants.

Months later the company Dow Corning announced that the company would stop making silicone implants due to an engineer of the company published an report made by 4 doctors, where 52 of 400 implants where defective.
The company knowing itt, they continued with the sale of implants, which provocated that hundreds of affected  women sued the company Dow Crowing for selling products wich they knew they could be defective. The lawyers  accused the company for giving false information and for endanger the lives of people.

Those who want their implants removed preemptively, out of fear that they cause complications in the future, it will touch $ 5,000; women who have suffered material loss and breakage or explosion of the prosthesis will be given a sum of around $ 25,000. Up they will receive 60,000 the woman who suffered permanent damage.

Philip Morris: Tobacco Products

                         Philip Morris: Tobacco Products.

In 2002, Philip Morris faced charges in a suit filed by a woman ( Betty Bullock) who had lung cancer and claimed that smoking cigarettes had caused her sickness and that her tobacco addiction was caused by the tobacco company's failure to warn her of the risks of smoking.

Betty Bullock started smoking when she was 17. At 64 she is suffering from lung cancer that does not yield his progress and has already spread to the liver. She denounced Philip Morris arguing that she had always relied on the company when the publicly claimed that medical studies showed no real link between cancer and the consumption of the tobacco.

Bullock found the perfect lawyer to represent: Michael Piuze, specialized in dealing with tobacco. He had defended the smoker Richard Boeken in a similar process in June of the last year. On that occasion, the jury convicted Philip Morris to pay 3,000 million to Boeken

The company was ordered to pay punitive damages of a whopping $28 million  The jury had sentenced the company to pay another $ 850,000 as compensatory damages, but the amount climbed after a day and a half of deliberation. Philip Morris shares immediately plummeted to lose 7.37% and prompted a decline of 2.45% on Wall Street. Philip Morris company appealed the case and nine years later the amount was reduced to $28 million.

Man Losed His Left Eye, Because Of Defective Product.

Man Losed His Left Eye, Because Of Defective Product. 

A neighbor from Errenteria has sue to Osakidetza because of suffering a necrosis on the optic nerve by the use of a drug in poor condition when he was in an operation of retinal detachment.

The health alert was issued in late June and the product manufactured in Germany has been retired, but leaves at least thirty affected in the State, seven of them from Basque Country.

The Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) has ordered the recall of the product, a synthetic compound from carbon and fluorine manufactured by a German company and commonly used in ophthalmic interventions. It is a gas for ocular interventions used to secure the retina. The order was given on June 26, but it is estimated that the toxic gas would have already hurt to thirty. 

Mikel Gonzalez, is one patient who has get  blind after the surgery on his left eye. He was diagnosed with mild retinal detachment in December of 2014. He was operated  three times. The last one , the 2 of June. "The day after the operation you cant see very well, I saw everything black," he says by phone from Renteria (Gipuzkoa). The doctor  cited for a review a week later. "There already were surprised. But do not you see anything at all? Something you should see, they told me. "In July, the doctor received a "Sit down, I have bad news" and informed him that the damage was irreversible. "He told me that one of the products had been toxic and I had stunted the optic nerve and retinal damage".

 

Fire Risk Air-Conditioning

Fire Risk From Air-Conditioning Lines Prompts Recall Of Over 93,000 Jeep Cherokees.

The US carmaker General Motors (GM) announced today the recall of 1,410,000 cars worldwide because of the risk of fire due to leakage of oil into the exhaust pipe.Vehicles affected by the recall of GM include the Pontiac Grand Prix 1997-2004, 2000-2004 Chevrolet Impala, Chevrolet Lumina 1998-1999, 1998-2004 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, the Oldsmobile Intrigue and 1998-1999 1997-2004 Buick Regal.

GM indicated that these vehicles can cause sudden stops dripping oil on the exhaust pipe, combined with high temperatures, "may cause fire" in the engine compartment. "GM is working on a solution," the company said in documents submitted to the National Administration for Highway Safety (NHTSA) in the United States. The company said it has received 19 reports of minor injuries in the past six years. The fact that it is the fourth time since 2008 that GM makes a recall to fix this problem occurs. At the same time, Fiat Chrysler (FCA) announced today that made two calls to review affecting a total of 180,000 vehicles in the United States. The first involves the recall of 94,000 2015 Jeep Cherokee for a problem with the air conditioning that can cause fires.