Posted on 09/25/2021 6:32:03 PM PDT by icclearly
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) is not available to compensate for injuries or death due to COVID-19 vaccinations.
You may only Petition for limited compensation from CICP:
As a small consolation, you may petition for a limited amount of compensation by petitioning within one year of the vaccination to the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP).
You will not receive attorney’s fees or reimbursement for expert witnesses to prove your claim.
You may not claim pain and suffering as an element of damages.
Costs will eat up most if not all of the damages you may expect, even if successful.
In 2005, the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP) was created to protect from liability pharmaceutical companies that make or distribute vaccines unless there is “willful misconduct” by the company.
HHS Secretary Alex Azar invoked PREP in February 2021 in response to the pandemic, declaring COVID-19 to be “a public health emergency warranting liability protections for covered countermeasures.”
This means that companies like Moderna and Pfizer are protected from lawsuits regarding their COVID-19 vaccines until 2024.
The PREP Act also created the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), which provides benefits to people who claim that they suffered injuries from vaccines under emergency authorization.
Successful claims are historically limited to less than ten percent of the claims submitted.
According to the Associated Press, “payments in most death cases are capped at $370,376” for CICP.
Since 2005, CICP has provided petitioners, who mostly made claims about the H1N1 swine flu vaccine, $6 million in compensation, with an average of $200,000 per claim.
Many effects of the vaccination may not arise until after the one year deadline to petition for damages.
I bet vaccine to be pulled off the market just before that immunity ends.
this is actually not an unlikely scenario. win win for everyone involved whose vote counts, since pharma will doubtless have cobbled together some other treatment by then that can be in patent.
This appears to restrict liability solely for failure to fully inform but not for any other reason. If they engage in fraud, improperly influence approval officials, administer a tainted product or any number of other reasons, they would remain liable. (The tobacco case comes to mind.) A case could possibly be made for their failure to keep the approval officials informed of adverse reactions while final approval is pending. If knowledge of danger to a certain class of recipient such as pregnant women is acquired after the fact, would they have a renewed duty to inform. Is the manufacturer's duty to inform restricted to a single cleverly written disclosure form or is it a duty to actually make sure the person vaccinated is given the information they need to protect themselves.
Only the manufacturers of the vaccine have been given legal immunity for their drugs under EUA.
Anyone else involved with forcing this on you is in violation of the Nuremberg Code, as well as US 18 242/241, not to mention all sorts of other human rights abuses.
I can’t believe businesses are so gullible to think they are immune from prosecution for forcing this on people.
The story is a bit more complicated than that.
The issue arose in the 1980s that DOD was unable to source the vaccines in the amounts required for military personnel immunizations, something like that.
Any of the big pharmaceutical outfits “could” make them, but the liability was so high, the potential is practically unlimited, nobody really felt like doing that. Why take the risk? So congress got involved and provided limited immunity if they agreed to make them.
Now the question today though is completely is about a brand new vaccine, it isn’t off patent or anything like that. I suppose the argument is similar. Nobody wants to be on the hook for when bad things happen.
Requiring that citizens take a product that may kill them, or cause a stroke, heart attack or other debilitating injuries in order to protect against an escaped bioweapon in the wild, or we’ll get you fired from your job that’s a real dumpster fire right there. It may be people seeking to sue should set their sights elsewhere.
As mentioned above damages would be addressed by the “CICP”...also this topic is covered by “The PREP Act” (enacted in 2005, and activated for COVID-19 in 2020 by the PDJT HHS). Looks like businesses would have to apply in advance for “Prep Act” liability protection:
https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/legal/prepact/Pages/default.aspx
https://www.pillsburylaw.com/en/news-and-insights/hhs-prep-act-liability-covid-19.html
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