Dow Corning offers settlement. (for claims by women who participated in silicone breast implant suit)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, September, 1997 by Sclafane, Susanne

With $2.4 billion earmarked for settlement and litigation of breast implant claims, Dow Coming says its new $3.7 billion bankruptcy reorganization plan offers "closure" to women with silicone breast implants, but members of the Tort Claimants Committee representing the women view it as coercion.

Reiterating the former implant maker's position that "overwhelming research" shows implants are not linked to disease, Gary Anderson, president of the Midland, Mich.-based company, said the new plan provides "settlement options and offers closure" to women who have "rejected" those findings. But according to Ed Blizzard, an attorney for the Tort Claimants Committee with the Houston firm of Blizzard & McCarthy, the plan says "if you don't take these, you're not...

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