Latest PIP Implants news

At last we are pleased to announce that we are pushing ahead with many hundreds of lawsuits for faulty PIP implant victims. The first claimants have been contacted this week and many more will be contacted after the Easter Weekend. We have kept thousands of British women updated on a weekly basis with news and

BAAPS today has welcomed the news that a patient has had her “faulty goods’ chargeback against the clinic who supplied her with PIP implants upheld. It is thought the patient has had the full cost of her implants refunded. Although most credit card companies require claims for refunds against faulty goods to be made within

Today we read what is perhaps the most honest and brutal assessment of the current UK PIP implants scandal. We have to share it: click here

Two of the UK’s largest cosmetic surgery groups have announced that they will match the NHS’s offer of removing PIP implants from any of its patients who had them since 2001. They will not however replace them free of charge. Both Transform Cosmetic Surgery Group and The Hospital Group bowed to pressure from the Government

On Friday, the International Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) was formally notified by the German authorities via the BfArM that the company, GfE Medizintechnik GmbH in Germany, sold implants that were manufactured using PIP silicone. From September 2003 to August 2004 they were retailed as TiBREEZE implants. As a result, the German BfArM Institute

Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) founder Jean-Claude Mas, 72, has been arrested at his home in Southern France. The boss of the PIP company is thought to have been arrested & detained as part of the judicial investigation started in December concerning manslaughter and involuntary injuries as a result of the companies illegal cost cutting and

Today in London’s Harley Street the atmosphere was Frosty for more than just the temperature as up to 100 women descended on the street to protest first at Harley Medicals offices, then onto Transforms who have both said they will not replace womens implants for free. The group protest by women affected by faulty PIP

It is expected the bill to clinics and their insurers could top £400m as thousands of women affected by the faulty PIP implants scandal contact specialist firms and lawyers the all over the country looking for legal help and advice. Here at pipimplantscompensation.co.uk we have been inundated with hundreds of women phoning and emailing us

The ITV Tonight special edition on the PIP implants scandal featured an interview with leading Plastic Surgeon Jan J Stanek (FRCS) where he claims that after his own investigations by using Ultrasound examinations the PIP Implant failure rate could be as high as 1 in 4. Source:  ITV.com/Tonight Obviously statistics like these create yet more

Today BAAPS (British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons) President Fazel Fatah blasted the behavior of some private clinics by commenting; “We find it outrageous…when women’s peace of mind is at stake, some clinics are refusing to honour their ostensible commitment to duty of care, particularly when they made a profit by using cheaper products and