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.