Patients claim compensation for facial filler disaster
Claims for compensation are based on either allegations that the fillers are defective in which case a claim is brought for compensation under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 or allegations that the filler shave been negligently supplied or inserted.
Although there has been a trickle of patients receiving modest out-of-court settlements for filler damage to their faces, no doctor or manufacturer has so far admitted liability.
Paul Balen the Freeth Cartwright partner representing facial filler victims commented:
‘I have clients who have lumps of this stuff erupting out of their faces. Others are dreadfully scarred, or they have strange bags of these filler products appearing under their eyes.’
His research has indicated that fillers can be very successful in the right hands, but there is a very small margin of error, and even a minor mistake in the site of the injection, the type of filler or volume used, can lead to terrible disfigurement.
‘I find it extraordinary that this treatment has become mainstream without any involvement of the regulatory authorities, just purely because it is cosmetic and not a drug or a therapeutic operation.
It is obviously very difficult to get it in the right place on the face, and most of the disasters look like operator error.’
Read more:
see
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/beauty/article6797683.ece
and
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1161328/I-tried-turn-time-wrinkle-jab–wrecked-life-leftfacially-disfigured.html#ixzz0OcJpSTTQ
and
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/apr/07/kira-cochrane-celebrities-ageing
and
http://www.gossiprocks.com/forum/beauty-skincare/98125-wrinkle-jab-wrecked-my-life-left-mefacially-disfigured.html
For more information contact Paul Balen:
Tel: 0115 936 9388
Email: paul.balen@freethcartwright.co.uk
www.freethcartwright.co.uk