The Provincial Court of Cádiz has handed down a sentence against the pharmaceutical multinational ‘Allergan’, which requires compensate a woman with 38,000 euros that her defective breast prostheses were implanted and they caused lymphatic cancer. This is the world’s first judgment of its kind.
It all started in 2012, when thousands of women began to implant these ‘Allergan’ breast implants. At that time, no one knew that the material was defective. now almost a hundred women have developed a rare lymphatic cancer as a result of these implants.
“I put on some breast prostheses and in November 2021 I started to have very strong painand in May they tell me that I have anaplastic large cell lymphoma,” says Nadia Sobrino, a victim of ‘Allergan’ breast implants, who demands that she be “compensated for all moral damages.”
In 2018, the European Union withdrew these prostheses from the market, although for many women the damage had already been done, as dictated by the pioneering ruling in the world that has been won in Spain. Christina. She was the first woman to take the plunge.. He denounced and won, and now they will have to pay him compensation of more than 38,000 euros.
Besides, there are 66 other cases that a law firm has already taken to court and they assure that the number will increase: “It is estimated that the segment that this sentence may affect is between 250,000 and 280,000 women in Spain“, says José Luis Ortiz, director of the Ortiz Abogados law firm.
This fight has only just begun, since in the name of Cristina, Nadia and other victims, other women have begun to act against a giant that, for the moment, responds with silence to the questions that from laSexta Noticias we have done to him