Dow Corning
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
U.S. government will receive $9.8 mil. to cover certain Medicare costs related to treatment of women with Dow Corning silicone-gel filled breast implants under a settlement approved by Judge Denise Page Hood of the eastern district of Michigan U.S. bankruptcy court. The funds will come from the firm's broader $3.2 bil. implant liability settlement fund, approved in 1999. Payouts are expected to begin in mid-2003, according to Dow Corning, which declared bankruptcy in 1995. The payouts cannot go forward until Dow Corning is assured that other claimants will not sue separately and that the firm is released from independent liability...