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When a Texas surgeon put Dow Corning silicone implants in Uneeda Laitinen's breasts 25 years ago, he assured her they were not just safe but indestructible. "He said when I was dead in my grave, I'd have beautiful breasts," she recalls. But going from a 34B to a 36C seemed to bring on a plethora of problems: severe migraines, memory loss, aching joints and nerves so damaged that Laitinen was unaware that a hot skillet was searing her until she smelled burning flesh. Her cyst-riddled ovaries were removed, and she developed eight stomach tumors. "There...
...thousands of other women believe the "something else" is silicone implants. Last week a class action against Dow Chemical, a parent company of Dow Corning, moved forward when a Louisiana jury found that Dow knowingly deceived the women by hiding negative information about silicone. The trial's second phase, which is to begin this month, will take up the most crucial question of all: Can silicone implants be scientifically proved in a court of law to be the cause of these ailments? At the same time, the case will test a more philosophical issue: How compatible in court...
Trials involving science often pit expert against expert, with lawyers on each side trying to expose the scientists on the other side as charlatans or proponents of "junk" theories. In 1993, however, the Supreme Court ruled in Daubert v. Merrell Dow that judges should act as gatekeepers, assessing the validity of the experts who take their stand. "Before Daubert, judges were unwilling to prevent testifying," says Joseph Sanders, a University of Houston law professor. "Now they're more willing to exclude experts." The results are dramatic, even pivotal, in cases involving breast implants. Last year Judge Robert Jones of Oregon...
MIDLAND, Michigan: Less than a week after a Louisiana jury ruled that Dow Chemical had misled women about the negative consequences of its silicone breast implants, a subsidiary of the corporation, Dow Corning Corp., today offered to settle out of court for $2.4 billion. 200,000 women worldwide each stand to gain between $1,000 and $200,000, but lawyers for the women say the offer short-changes their clients and ignores thousands of additional plaintiffs...
...effort to guarantee approval, the company said it would up the overall payout if more than two thirds of the women approve the plan. But while Dow offered to cough up the green, it refused to admit its breast-enhancing product causes disease. "We still believe very strongly that the scientific evidence shows there's no connection between breast implants and medical conditions," said Dow Corning CEO Richard Hazleton. A trial, slated to begin later this month, will attempt to determine if the implants are linked to any illnesses...