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 […]
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 […]
