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Claimants in Dow Corning breast implant settlement to start getting checks
Lawyer drops appeal that held up payments
By Sarah Karush / Associated Press Writer
DETROIT -- Some 170,000 women who claim silicone breast implants made them sick could begin receiving settlement checks within months after a lawyer dropped an appeal that had held up payments for years.
A lawyer involved in the settlement with the Dow Corning Corp. said Friday that the first checks should go out by theend of the year.
Dow Corning, a joint venture of Midland-based Dow Chemical and Corning, N.Y.-based Corning Inc., was forced into bankruptcy in 1995 after thousands of women filed claims that implants made by the company damaged their health.
As part of the company?s reorganization plan, it set aside a fund currently worth $2.35 billion to pay implant claimants.
Approximately 170,000 women who received breast implants have filed claims, said Dow Corning spokeswoman Amy Rosborough. There are many other claimants who had other kinds of silicone implants, including joint and facial implants, but Rosborough could not say how many.
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Lawyer drops appeal that held up payments
By Sarah Karush / Associated Press Writer
DETROIT -- Some 170,000 women who claim silicone breast implants made them sick could begin receiving settlement checks within months after a lawyer dropped an appeal that had held up payments for years.
A lawyer involved in the settlement with the Dow Corning Corp. said Friday that the first checks should go out by theend of the year.
Dow Corning, a joint venture of Midland-based Dow Chemical and Corning, N.Y.-based Corning Inc., was forced into bankruptcy in 1995 after thousands of women filed claims that implants made by the company damaged their health.
As part of the company?s reorganization plan, it set aside a fund currently worth $2.35 billion to pay implant claimants.
Approximately 170,000 women who received breast implants have filed claims, said Dow Corning spokeswoman Amy Rosborough. There are many other claimants who had other kinds of silicone implants, including joint and facial implants, but Rosborough could not say how many.
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