Reporter Jordan Weissmann examines the U.S. Court of
Federal Claims vaccine rulings that rejected claims from parents that childhood immunizations cause autism.
Not exact matches
The Institute of Medicine concluded last May that no
claim could be made for a causal link between mercury - laced
vaccines and autism, but several independent researchers had complained that their access to
federal vaccine databases, which could provide evidence of a link, had been repeatedly blocked.
McCain was responding to a question from the mother of a boy with autism, who asked about a recent story that the U.S. Court of
Federal Claims and the National
Vaccine Injury Compensation Program had issued a judgment in favor of an unnamed child whose family
claimed regressive encephalopathy and symptoms of autism were caused by thimerosal.
Two Wisconsin sisters have filed a
federal claim, saying they believe a cervical cancer
vaccine caused their ovaries to stop producing eggs.
While attending law school, he worked in both the Department of Justice's Civil Division's Office of
Vaccine Litigation and the United States Court of
Federal Claims Office of Special Masters.
Seems that the U.S. Court of
Federal Claims was given that label after the 1986 National Childhood
Vaccine Injury Act created a sort of no - fault system protecting vaccine makers from full tortious liability and directing all lawsuits into that
Vaccine Injury Act created a sort of no - fault system protecting
vaccine makers from full tortious liability and directing all lawsuits into that
vaccine makers from full tortious liability and directing all lawsuits into that court.
He brings a practice of representing healthcare providers before boards of medicine, defending malpractice
claims and representing petitioners of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program in the United States Court of Federal C
claims and representing petitioners of the National
Vaccine Injury Compensation Program in the United States Court of
Federal ClaimsClaims.
She also represents
vaccine injured petitioners in the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program in the United States Court of Federal
vaccine injured petitioners in the National
Vaccine Injury Compensation Program in the United States Court of Federal
Vaccine Injury Compensation Program in the United States Court of
Federal Claims.
These cases are brought under the
Vaccine Act and litigated in the United States Court of
Federal Claims in Washington, D.C..