Vaccines are among the safest therapeutic agents, and serious adverse events rarely occur.
When they do occur, an individual may have to bear some or all of the costs associated with …

One tribunal member is nominated by the claimant, the other by the government, and the
chair of the committee is chosen by the other two committee members.[...] The absence of …

The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 established the National Vaccine Injury
Compensation Program to compensate people thought to be injured by certain vaccines …

The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (the Act) established the National
Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) as a federal" no-fault" compensation system …

Mandatory immunization requirementsprotect both the individual and the community against
the morbidity and mortality associated with vaccine-preventable illnesses. Despite the …

Approximately a dozen countries provide some form of compensation for injuries (or deaths)
following vaccination. More than anything else, they were instituted in the belief …

The purpose of this article is to look at the effect of the federal compensation scheme under
the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act on the people and institutions involved in the …

Background Congress created the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program in 1986
as a compromise solution to two decades of controversy over whether and how adverse …

Although my 1977 editorial1 stressed the need for an equitable system of compensation for
unavoidably injured vaccine recipients and for indemnification of physicians and …