By: Hank Campbell 11 October 2010 Since the 1980s, when lawsuits nearly drove drug companies out of business, a special ‘Vaccine Court’ has been the route parents of children have to go if they suspect a vaccine was involved in their child’s situation. Is there truly due process if a plaintiff must go through a […]
Supreme Court Case Could Significantly Change Vaccine Lawsuits
By: Lauren Cox 11 October 2010 The Supreme Court is set to hear the first arguments Tuesday in a vaccine injury case that pediatricians and medical malpractice lawyers worry will drastically change how patients sue vaccine manufacturers in this country. By law, families who want to sue for vaccine injuries must first go through a […]
Supreme Court to Consider Vaccine Case
By: Barry Meier 11 October 2010 The safety of vaccines is at the heart of a case expected to be heard on Tuesday by the United States Supreme Court, one that could have implications for hundreds of lawsuits that contend there is a link between vaccines and autism. At issue is whether a no-fault system […]
Vaccine makers targeted in lawsuit
By: Paula Reed Ward, ‘Pittsburg Post Gazette’ 11 October 2010 Hanna Bruesewitz’s parents think DPT vaccination caused the child’s seizure disorder, but the vaccine maker is protected from suits by federal law. On April 1, 1992, Hannah Bruesewitz was a healthy infant. She had reached all of her developmental milestones for a 6-month-old, and that […]
U.S. Supreme Court will Rule on an Important Vaccine Case
By: Emily Tarsell 09 October 2010 Imagine how you would feel if you were in a serious accident caused by faulty breaks in your new car, but there was a law prohibiting you from suing the manufacturer for the defective car. Well there is a law which prohibits vaccine manufacturers from being sued for vaccine […]
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