Letter from lawyers office

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I wanted to scan a letter from a lawyers office about my implant

report from Dr. Blais, my brother is an atty and he forwarded my

explant report and some of my medical records to an atty's office

that he thought could maybe help to see if I had a possible law

suit. Well they basically discredit Dr. Blais, etc. I think these

lawyers as just as bad as the Drs. Well anyway I will type below

what their letter says(I dont know how to scan) and let me know what

you guys think.

Dear(Addressed to my brother)

I wish to thank you once again for forwarding to us the reports and

records concerning your sister. We have reviewed this matter

extensively, within our office, We have also done some legal

research into the current status of claims of Barbara's type. In

addition, due to our involvement with ATLA, we are familiar with many

Attorneys throughout the Country who have specialized in handling

claims of this type. We have spoken with several Atty's and they have

given us additional information that has been helpful in evaluationg

Barbara's claim

We discussed that there us currently a Class action pending

involving the false afvertising into Inamed and/or McGhan breast

implant matters(The maximum recovery is $200.00). However, Barbara

does not qualify for that class, due to the fact she did not receive

her implants during the appropriate period, Oct 1, 1996 through Sept.

30, 2003.

Most of the litigation that has occured over the yrs concerning BI

has been w/regard to silicone gel implant. The allegation had been

that silicone gel implants caused systemic diseases such as

fibromyalgia,CFS, and the like. Over the past decades, certain BI

cases were settled, without trial, while the causation issues were

being hotly contested. More recently,however, the Institute of

Medicine came forth with a report indicating that there was no proof

of causation between the alleged problems and the silicone gel

implant. Since that time,most Plaintiffs experts in cases of this

type have been prevented from testifying on causation issues on

Daubert grounds.

Certain silicone gel implant cases are still being settled. These

cases however involve Dow chemical.A fund had been created yrs ago to

pay funds to women who had silicone gel Dow implants. Despite the

current lack of medical causation for these claims, the money had

already been paid into the trust fund and is still available for

persons who would qualify.

Your sister would not qualify for this class or these claims, due

to the fact she did not have a silicone gel implant. Her implant was

saline in type. While plaintiffs have argued that saline is a safe

alternative to silicone,they have argued that the silicone in the

shell degrades causing the same exposure to the same types of

problems. Unfortunately,the silicone issues on causation are

identical to the silicone causation issues that have been rejected

for the silicone gel implants.

We have learned that the expert your sister went to, Dr. Blais is

well known to the Plaintiffs' attys that we have spoken to. It

appears that hehas invested his career to studying and testifying

regarding breast implant cases. It is my understanding that,while

considered rather knowledgable,his opinions are not supported by most

other physicians and he is on the radical fringe of the science in

this area.

Based upon all of the above,we cannot recommend that this office go

forward with a further investigation into this potential products

liability matter. Should you have any questions please do not

hesitate to call.

Very Truly,