According to its communications director, the Servier group offers Mediator victims compensation offers of around 6,000 euros. The amounts would be fixed by the scale of the Oniam.
“The offers are a little above 6,000 euros both median and average. This is the response given this Tuesday to the Medical Press Agency (APM) by Lucy Vincent, director of communication for Laboratoires Servier following the revelations of a lawyer for victims of the Mediator quoted anonymously this weekend in the Journal du Sunday. The latter affirmed in the weekly that, “most of the offers do not exceed 3,000 euros. “
Lucy Vincent, however, confirms the information issued on Sunday according to which the Servier group offers the victims of the Mediator compensation offers in the range of 500 to 90,000 euros after sending a final notice by the National Office for Compensation for Medical Accidents (Oniam)
The laboratory claims to have received for the moment 100 final opinions from the college of experts and to have responded positively to all, “with amounts set according to the scale of the Oniam”, adds the director. Regarding the 650 or so legal summonses against Servier, Lucy Vincent specifies that an expert report was ordered for “67% of them and refused in 20%; the rest is under investigation. “She also acknowledges that to date,” three transactions have been concluded outside of Oniam with victims, always on their initiative, for claims that were before the courts. “
Asked by the MPA yesterday, the director of Oniam, Erick Rance, indicates, for his part, that to date, out of 1,572 opinions issued by the panel of experts, 226 proposed compensation, i.e. a rate of more of 14% favorable opinions.
Often criticized for its slowness, and its intransigence in examining cases, the college now seems to have partly rectified the situation. At the beginning of February 2013, the compensation rate remained, it is true, very low with only 64 favorable opinions (7.6%). The equation had made jump at the time the associations of victims of the Mediator. The college will resume its work in September with its new president, Alain Legoux.
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