1.   Dow Corning seeks insurance coverage to be used to compensate women who claimed silicone breast implants made them ill, the paper said.

2.   In all the cases, the insurance company refused to compensate the woman for her losses.

3.   In essence, they are selling package deals consisting of medical care and an insurance policy that compensates women who fail to become pregnant.

4.   It is nonetheless considering setting up a mechanism under which individuals and corporations could contribute privately to a fund that would be used to compensate the women.

5.   Japan is also concerned that compensating the women will unleash a torrent of claims for its wartime atrocities.

6.   The Japanese government has refused to compensate the women with public funds, saying such claims were settled by postwar treaties.

7.   The letter excoriates Murayama for doing too little too late to compensate the women for their ordeal.

8.   The protest grows out of the breakdown of a legal settlment to compensate women whose implant failed.

9.   They all wanted a settlement that allowed women to be compensated without having to take individual cases to court.

10.   What is more, Brazil says, the company bases its salaries on merit and compensates women on par with men.