The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 created the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). It lies outside the traditional court system. It was created because there were so many nuisance lawsuits being launched against vaccine makers that Congress was worried they would go out of business and we’d see diseases like polio make a return in the US.
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program doesn’t require any medical proof that the vaccine caused your injury. They require only that the injury happened within some reasonable time frame from when you got the vaccine and that you supply some reasonable explanation for how the vaccine caused the injury. The average pay-out is 6-figures.
With that very low bar of evidence and with that big pay-out waiting for you, they still only average 1 compensation per 1 million vaccinations.
Thanks for the info!
Isn’t it interesting that Congress didn’t see fit to provide for folks harmed by doing what they were told.