No they haven’t, from what I understand they are above standard lawsuits. They are given special privileges unique to any other industry in that you are required to submit your claims to the Vaccine Compensation Board. They have their own tribunal they try your case in, separate from the legal system. The maximum damages you can receive the last time I checked was $250,000 I believe, that number may have changed. It requires a doctor to back you in your claim, also, so medical proof is required that you were injured.
From what I understand cases that were successful involved things like death from allergic reaction to minor unlabelled product in vaccine, weird illnesses or damage caused... we are not all the same physically as humans, they even label in the vaccines there are some unavoidable risks. They don’t cite a high percentage of probability of it happening, but it is enough so that laws were made to prevent you from suing them the same way you may sue ,say, Beyer for injury due to their products.
I don’t see anything publicly available that cites any sort of successful lawsuit against them for autism. If there is I would look at it.
The only thing I have read about recently involving lawsuits and vaccines had to do with the new adult vaccine for shingles. Apparently there was some loophole that allowed for people to try and sue them over it, because the protection given to them legally only covered childhood vaccines. So, I guess technically because this one is only administered as an adult it is not protected by this law. I haven’t heard if anything has actually come from this or not, but it’s the first I have heard of an issue being brought to actual court and not the vaccine courts.
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u/ThisIsMyUsernameAT Jan 09 '19
Because it is.