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SUMMARY
Persons with hemophilia in the United States, Latin
America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa were
infected with contaminated blood products. Lieff Cabraser
is representing clients from around the world in lawsuits
filed in U.S. courts against American blood companies
that sold in the U.S. and exported contaminated blood
worldwide. |
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Lieff
Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, Announces Argentine
Hemophiliac Who Received Contaminated Blood Products Has
Filed Claim Against American Blood Product Manufacturers
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Firm Will Be Meeting This Week In Buenos Aires With
Hemophiliacs In Argentina And Other Nations To Discuss
Legal Strategy |
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| September
22, 2003, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Lieff Cabraser Heimann
& Bernstein, LLP, announced today that it has filed an
amended complaint in the lawsuit entitled Gullone et al. v.
Bayer Corporation, et al., United States District Court Case
No. C03-2572, which includes the claim of a citizen of Argentina
who used blood factor concentrate exported from America and
subsequently became infected with HIV and Hepatitis C. This
constitutes the first claim filed in United States court by
a hemophiliac from Latin America against American blood manufacturers.
The complaint alleges that the American corporations manufactured
blood products known as "Factor VIII" and "Factor
IX" for the treatment of hemophilia, and exported these
products to hemophiliacs worldwide, despite knowledge that
the products were manufactured from sick, high risk donors
and/or known to be contaminated with the viruses that cause
AIDS and Hepatitis C (also known as HIV and HCV respectively). |
| "Hemophiliacs in Latin America were part of the tragedy
that saw tens of thousands of hemophiliacs worldwide die unnecessarily
(switched word order) from AIDS, and many thousands more become
infected with HIV or Hepatitis C," explained Lieff Cabraser
attorney Lexi Hazam. "The lawsuit seeks to require that
the American companies that made these contaminated products
acknowledge their responsibility to hemophiliacs and their
families in Argentina and throughout Latin America, and provide
them with monetary compensation." |
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Cabraser expects that scores of additional Argentines and
hemophiliacs in Latin America will eventually be part of the
litigation. The countries in Latin America that Lieff Cabraser
believes were shipped contaminated blood products, in addition
to Argentina, include: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. |
| Lieff Cabraser will be meeting hemophiliacs from Argentina
and other nations later this week in Buenos Aires to provide
them an update on the lawsuit and to discuss legal strategy.
These meeting will occur at the Alvear Palace Hotel, Av.
Alvear 1891 C1129AAA, Buenos Aires, Telephone: (54) 11-4808-2100,
Fascimile: (54) 11-4804-0034. The main meeting will be from
5 to 8 pm on Thursday, September 25, 2003. Follow up meetings
for persons who can not attend the meeting on September 25,
2003, will occur from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, September
26, 2003. The meetings on both days will be held in a conference
room at the hotel. A Spanish speaking attorney from Lieff
Cabraser will be present, as will Argentine counsel that
is working with Lieff Cabraser on behalf of clients from
Argentina.
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Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP is a fifty-plus attorney
law firm with offices in San Francisco, New York and Nashville.
It is one of the leading law firms in the United States that
represents only plaintiffs. The firm has successfully litigated
against the nation's cigarette manufacturers, and against
some of the country's largest pharmaceutical, insurance,
securities and software companies. Since 1992, Lieff Cabraser
has litigated thirty-five separate cases in which $100 million
or more jury verdicts were rendered or settlements were reached,
including ten cases each valued at $1 billion or more. Assisting
Lieff Cabraser with the litigation in the United States is
attorney Charles Kozak. |
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Source/Contact:
LIEFF CABRASER HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN, LLP
275
Battery Street, 30th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111
Tel: (415) 956-1000
Fax: (415) 956-1008
For
Argentine Clients Only:
Federico Pinto Kramer
Paraguay 631, piso 4 "A"
C.P. 1057
Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires
Tel: (11) 4312-3412
Fax: (22) 7445-0184
Email: femapi@infovia.com.ar
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