U.S. Supreme Court Betrays U.S. Consumer: Big Pharma Given Total Liability Shield for Vaccines The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), whose co-founders worked with Congress on the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (PL-99-660), is calling the U.S. Supreme Court's Feb. 22 decision giving drug companies total liability protection for injuries and deaths caused by government mandated vaccines a "betrayal" of the American consumer. Court Ignores 1986 Act's Legislative Language and History In a 6-2 decision, the Court majority voted to reject substantial evidence in the 1986 Act's language and legislative history that the 99th Congress fully intended to protect an American's right to sue a pharmaceutical corporation for injuries that could have been prevented if the company had elected to make a safer vaccine. Victims of Vaccine Injury Thrown Under the Bus NVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher, said "Parents of vaccine injured children, who worked in good faith with Congress in the early 1980's on the 1986 law, have been betrayed by six American judges, who ignored congressional intent and threw victims of vaccine injury under the bus in order to give complete liability protection to a wealthy industry with a long history of hiding their products' risks. They have removed the safety net we were promised. If we had known this day would come, we would have vigorously opposed any federal legislation that limited civil liability for drug corporations now making substantial profits from vaccines mandated by government." Hannah Brain Damaged by DPT Vaccine & Denied Compensation Hannah Bruesewitz was brain injured by DPT vaccine as a child but she was denied compensation by the U.S. Court of Claims, which administers the federal vaccine injury compensation program created by the 1986 Act that has turned away two out of three plaintiffs... click here to read more and make a comment. In the News Mt, Lebanon Parent Loses Vaccine Battle - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a 1986 law prohibits a Mt. Lebanon couple from suing a drug company for the lifetime side effects their daughter suffers after receiving one of its vaccines. Defendant Pfizer Inc. and the American Academy of Pediatrics hailed the 6-2 decision as a victory for "life-saving" immunization. "Today's Supreme Court decision protects children by strengthening our national immunization system and ensuring that vaccines will continue to prevent the spread of infectious diseases in this country," read a release from the doctors' group. Critics said the court left parents with no way to hold vaccine makers accountable and no feasible way to get compensation for the injuries suffered by their children. "As of today, you're on your own," said Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center. Fisher and other parents who worked with Congress to write the law were promised an alternative to the court system that would allow for quick and fair resolutions of their claims while enabling them to go to court if the alternative system didn't work, she said. "Had we ever known or imagined that this day would come, we never would have supported the legislation in the '80s," she said. - Brian Bowling, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Feb. 23, 2011 | 
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