BREAST IMPLANT SETTLEMENT APPROVAL ORDER EXPANDS BENEFITS FOR FOREIGN CLAIMANTS
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
BREAST IMPLANT SETTLEMENT APPROVAL ORDER EXPANDS BENEFITS FOR FOREIGN CLAIMANTS, according to the order signed Sept. 1 by federal judge Samuel Pointer in the U.S. District Court in Birmingham, Alabama. Pointer granted foreign claimants access to 3% of all funds in the global breast implant settlement, whereas previously they only had access to 3% of the "disease compensation" portion of the settlement.