A lawsuit of thousands of women with PIP breast implants against the German testing company TÜV Rheinland is on 11 December in France. The joint claim are about 9,000 women from different countries. That have personal injury firm SAP Lawyers and Law Legally Advice Friday. Over two hundred Dutch women filed a claim.The decision is expected no sooner than early next year.
Late last year, the French court ruled that some 1,600 women of different nationalities 3,000 euros per person can get from TÜV Rheinland. This company approved the implants good for the European market. This judgment was the door put claims of women from the Netherlands. PIP implants have a higher risk of rupture and leakage by using cheap, industrial silicone. The French manufacturer PIP is now bankrupt, and to hear the founder was the last judge to four years in jail.In the Netherlands, more than a thousand women breast implants PIP brand.
In 2011 there was unrest because leaking implants could pose health risks. Dutch plastic surgeons recommend anyway to let remove PIP implants. The Inspectorate for Healthcare recommends examined for cracks and leaks and if need be, preventive removal. ZEMBLA made for broadcasting " Operation II guinea pig 'wake tour of Dutch private clinics and hospitals who have worked with PIP implants. It is about 25 institutions. They have become obsolete with each other the names of some 1700 women who received PIP implants. At least 31 women with PIP implants were then not reached. The Dutch Society for Plastic Surgery named in a written response bankruptcy of clinics as an important cause. " As a result, the administration was looking and the women could not be properly traced " Today it was announced that Cosmetic Surgeons in January starting with a national registration of breast implants. This allows implants that cause problems are detected earlier, according to the Dutch Society for Plastic Surgery (NVPC) today. (Reuters? ZEMBLA)
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