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.