Hanbe
LAP-BAND Patients
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Hanbe got a reaction from Falgune Dusara in So I won the lawsuit against SLIMBAND IN TORONTO how do i collectI can’t remember off the top of my head. I will contact my doctors office once it opens again after COVID-19. I will post when I know
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Hanbe got a reaction from Falgune Dusara in So I won the lawsuit against SLIMBAND IN TORONTO how do i collectIf you just go to your family doctor you can get a referral to a surgeon that will remove a lapband under OHIP. I had mine remove at St.Mikes hospital 2 years ago under OHIP.
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Hanbe got a reaction from Falie in So I won the lawsuit against SLIMBAND IN TORONTO how do i collectNo they are the same product just two different clinic names. Dr Lau originally opened it as Toronto Lapband Clinic. Then when he was sued. Him and his partners declared bankruptcy and opened up the same clinic in the same location doing the same procedure which is the Lapband and doing fills and they called it Slimband.
Same procedure, same company just two different names. There is only one type of weight loss surgery that they do which is the Lapband.
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I have contacted a legal firm in Vancouver that already has a class action against the company that makes Lap-Band. Since we already have many people interested in a class action against Slimband, they might just take the case on a contingency basis (i.e. they would get 10% of any money recovered). I will let you know if/when I hear back from them. Since the Slimband clinic is closed, that would not be our target. And unfortunately it wouldn't be Dr. Patrick Yau either. It would be the owner of BOTH Slimband clinic and CreditMedical.com where many of us got our medical loans from, as it is still practicing and making TONS of money charging huge interest rates on medical loans. Where there's big money, you can bet a lawyer is going to be interested - especially since they've probably already done a lot of research into banding for their initial suit. Personally I will probably have the band removed at some point but not until I can find a surgeon that will revise my RNY to make the pouch smaller. I had an RNY in 2002 and the pouch expanded so I got the Slimband in 2013 to increase restriction again. If I take the band off, I will still have the big pouch, and I don't want that. I expect that with missed work due to Slimband complications since January 2013, I will be owed in the tens of thousands of dollars easily.
