He added that, in West Virginia, there were "about 70,000 or more cases filed in the federal courts".iPublic Petitions Committee (Session 4), Official Report, 24 February 2015, col 26.
When asked about the level of data that was available to show adverse events and the number of women affected, Mr Slater said that as part of his work in litigation he was able to access internal documents from manufacturers:
"We are talking about millions of women, according to the data from the manufacturers themselves."