An attorney says that this may be a true chance for victims of vaccine injuries to really get compensation and not the current scam that is being offered.
By Catholics for Catholics
If you or someone you know were injured or died because of the side-effects of a COVID-19 vaccine, in the future it may be legally easier to prove your case and win a lawsuit to get compensation, according to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy Jr. is preparing to present a rulemaking process that could make it much easier for people injured by COVID-19 vaccines to receive compensation from the federal government, marking one of the most pivotal changes to date to the vaccine injury program, according to a story by The Defender.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to recommend a rule in November that would create a formal “injury table” for COVID-19 vaccines. The proposal would go through a public comment period expected to run into early 2027 before any final rule could take effect.
Kennedy’s plan would establish a table identifying injuries the government presumes were caused by covered COVID-19 countermeasures, including vaccines.
Nevertheless, for an injury to be listed in the table, the rule will require “compelling, reliable, valid, medical, and scientific evidence” linking the injury to the vaccine. The rule would also specify the time windows in which those injuries must develop following vaccination.
HHS has not disclosed which injuries it may include.
Still, legal experts expect myocarditis — an inflammation of the heart muscle that has been linked to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, particularly among adolescent and young adult males — to receive close consideration because federal health agencies have already acknowledged the association.
Attorney Ray Flores, who filed the suit on behalf of plaintiff Erica Samp, said the table could make certain those with COVID-19 vaccine injuries get a fair chance at payment — something he said the CICP has been ineffective in doing.
“The CICP compensation program is a black hole for all those who were injured,” Flores told The Defender. “Only 60 claims have been paid in total. The median award is $4,300 for death or serious bodily injury. It’s a scam … this [proposed rule] opens the door for anyone else who missed the deadline to apply. They have a shot at filing in federal court now.”
More than 1.5 million reports of COVID-19 vaccine adverse events filed with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) don’t qualify for compensation through the federal CICP because the program covers only deaths and injuries meeting the government’s definition of “serious physical injury.”
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