Company Alleged To Have Hid Implant Ruptures

[UpInArms]

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/052305_nw_implants.html

The allegations are contained in a lawsuit a woman filed against the Mentor Corporation. She claims her implants caused health problems.

The suit was dismissed. But the file contains depositions from two former Mentor Corporation workers. One says he was told to destroy files showing high rupture rates in the implants.

Mentor's president calls the allegations old news.

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Wow! It's "old news" so it doesn't matter. Seems like this is the way of the *Co followers. Move along folks, no "news" here.

:argh:

[mtnester]

1. Of course they hid it....

women...still second class citizens to many

[Lerkfish]

2. I have yet to see an honest and forthright response from a US corp since

the tylenol tampering...and that wasn't even the corp's fault.
I've never seen a corp take responsibility...for anything remotely appearing to be their fault.

[Orrex]

3. Nature of the beast

In most cases, corporations are by charter required to protect the financial interests of their stockholders. If that coincides with serving the public good, then that's dandy, but it's hardly the priority. In general, they're certainly not going to fess up to liability unless ordered to do so by a court or unless the corporation concludes that not fessing up would be more damaging to the bottom line. That's why the settlements in so many corporate lawsuits begin with "Company X admits no wrongdoing but agrees to pay a zillion dollars to the victims."

Though I don't like it, that's how it is. A corporation is a machine for generating profit for its owners; everything else is incidental.

I would be delighted to see this change, but it seems unlikely. One of the worst atrocities committed upon the citizenry was the determination that corporations are "artificial persons" entitled to many of the same rights as real people. These artificial persons are potentially immortal, and their essential nature is predatory and secretive.

One might as readily complain that triangles would be cool if only they had four sides. Sure, that might make them cooler, but then they wouldn't be triangles anymore.

So it is with corporations.

[struggle4progress]

4. kick

[Straight Shooter]

5. I thought "old news" was Gropenator's favorite term.

Someone please tell me that Mentor Corp. is a Repub company.