PIP implants: TÜV sentenced to Toulon ... and ordered to pay Aix | Toulon | Var-Matin
TUV Rheinland and TUV France, which certifiaient manufacturing breast implants PIP companies were dismissed by the Court of Appeal of Aix en Provence, this Tuesday, January 21.
TUV challenged a decision of the Commercial Court of Toulon, on the specific point of "provisional execution." TUV was sentenced to pay immediately some 1,600 women, 3,000 euros provision each, plus court costs (400 euros per folder). In total, these cumulative payments exceed EUR 5 million.
The Court of Appeal of Aix en Provence also rejected requests subsidiary of TUV on a payment arrangement. In the statement of the decision of the Commercial Court of Toulon, 14 November 2013, the German TUV certification had described the judgment as "shocking" and announced his intention to appeal.
After three years of investigation of the case on the civil side, the Var court had committed the responsibility of TUV, in the commission of fraud gel non-compliant silicone, considering that the certifier had failed in his mission control.
The appeal hearing will take place on the bottom and is subsequently disconnected from the decision. But already, the women with PIP implants are supported by volunteers as actors in civil and commercial proceedings.
They will receive a first compensation pending a final judgment. "The logic of compensation is confirmed", welcomed the lawyer Olivier Aumaître originally this procedure.
"TUV must execute victims by setting the amounts allocated to them, unable to escape its obligation to pay compensation."
Feeling shared by the lawyer Laurent Gaudon Marseille, who said "this is the first time that the victims of PIP implants will be compensated in France. And besides, whatever their nationality, since 90% of my cases involve South American. "
In his eyes, the confirmation of the provisional execution of a judgment is "unheard of. This is a huge victory for justice. "
