Article 65-10-2011
Unanswered Questions from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: A Review of Compensated Cases of Vaccine-Induced BrainInjury
Mary Holland
NYU School of Law
, hollandm@exchange.law.nyu.edu
Louis ConteRobert Krakow Lisa Colin
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Recommended CitationMary Holland, Louis Conte, Robert Krakow, and Lisa Colin,
Unanswered Questions from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: A Review of Compensated Cases of Vaccine-Induced Brain Injury
, 28PaceEnvtl.L. Rev. 480 (2011) Available at: http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/pelr/vol28/iss2/6
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Is the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program “VICP” of the US Court of Federal Claims a fair forum? This is not atrivial question as it is the only forum in which parents maybring claims for vaccine injury to their children Under the 196National Childhood Vaccine Injury ct “196 aw” Congresscreated an administrative forum that it meant to ensure simple justice for children it gave the VICP original jurisdiction for allvaccine injury claims
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ary olland esearch Scholar and Director of the raduate egal SkillsProgram NYU School of aw ouis Conte independent investigator andobert rakow and isa Colin attorneys in private practice Pace aw Schoolprovided significant research support for this study The authors thank formernvironmental aw Dean lexandra Dunn and law students Jillian Petrerayle Caffrey Sohad Jamal lison aplan eorgine ells Jonne onquilloisa atem llison azi and drienne Fortin The authors also thankvolunteers who worked under the direction of ouis Conte For purposes of disclosure obert rakow and isa Colin represent clients and have claims onbehalf of family members in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program1 National Childhood Vaccine Injury ct of 196 42 USC § aa-112 26 “ll individuals injured by a vaccine administered after thedate of enactment of the legislation are required to go through the compensationprogram”
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196 USCCN644 644 fter filing in the program petitioners may reject program judgments or opt out of it to bring claims in state or federal court but initialclaims over 1 in damages must be made in the VICP
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