article_snippet: Thousands of women who had PIP breast implants could be in line for payouts totalling up to half a billion pounds.
article_snippet: PIP implants fitted in 2008, and plans to claim compensation .
article_snippet: Thousands of British women who had PIP breast implants could be in line for payouts totalling up to half a billion pounds.
article_snippet: There are believed to be more than 50,000 women in the UK who were fitted with PIP breast implants before the product was discovered to contain a high level of industrial silicone.
article_snippet: realise many UK women who don’t can claim compensation for many UK women who don’t implants.
article_snippet: The Stanton Fisher Group, a firm of UK financial claims specialists representing PIP patients from all over the world, has said the total payouts for British women could total as much as half a billion pounds.
article_snippet: It is welcome news for the thousands of women in the UK who faced trauma, financial costs and further operations to have financial costs and further operations PIP implants removed.
article_snippet: Women who have had PIP implants simply need to prove Women who have had PIP implants had the surgery undertaken.
article_snippet: There is no requirement for PIP implants to have ruptured or still be in place to pursue a claim.
article_snippet: ’ PIP implants were sold widely across the world from the mid 1990’s.
article_snippet: Mr Hulme added: 'This has opened the door for the thousands of women in the UK and Ireland who had PIP implants to take action in the French Courts.
article_snippet: ‘Having her PIP implants fitted in 2008 at a private clinic made me feel much more womanly,
article_snippet: but then when I heard about her PIP implants fitted in 2008 at a private clinic.
article_snippet: I borrowed some money from my family to pay the £2,500 cost of having some money removed and new implants put in.
highlights_snippet: Women with PIP implants can claim compensation - but deadline is today .
  