Webinar: Suing Vaccine Administrators – HHS Requiring Lawsuits Against Healthcare Providers

SARASOTA, FL / ACCESSWIRE / April 9, 2020 / The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed a rule change forcing patients who experience certain injuries from a vaccine injection, like the flu shot, to sue the doctors, nurses, and pharmacists in civil trials in state courts (read HHS rule change). For more than 30 years, these cases have been handled in a federal no-fault program called the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP). The NVICP shields healthcare providers and vaccine manufacturers from liability when administering a vaccination that causes an injury, but that protection would disappear for certain injuries under HHS's rule change.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, HHS has proposed removing SIRVA (Shoulder Injury from Vaccine Administration) and other injuries from the NVICP. HHS says medical professionals are incorrectly giving these vaccinations resulting in unnecessary injuries. According to HHS, "If those who administer vaccines can be held liable when a patient suffers from SIRVA or vasovagal syncope as a result of the administration of the vaccine, those who administer vaccines will have greater incentive to use proper injection technique." Page 19 of the February 13, 2020, HHS Proposed Rule Change. Instead of these injuries being compensated in the no-fault program, HHS proposes that they be brought into the civil court system, as they were prior to Congress' enactment of the NVICP in 1986.

Maglio Christopher & Toale, PA (mctlaw) is the nation's largest vaccine injury law firm. For decades mctlaw has helped patients from every state obtain compensation for statistically rare, but severe, vaccine injuries. All of those claims have been handled in the NVICP and brought before the Court of Federal Claims in Washington, DC. No vaccine administrators or manufacturers were sued. Instead, compensation was handled the way that Congress intended; through a trust fund created to compensate those suffering injuries following vaccinations.

As mctlaw does not do medical malpractice or sue vaccine administrators, this proposed rule change will mean that we are no longer able to help these clients. Instead, these clients will now need representation by medical malpractice and pharmacy negligence trial lawyers.

Maglio Christopher & Toale, P.A. strongly opposes this proposed rule change by HHS in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. If HHS is successful in this poorly considered rule change, mctlaw's clients will have no choice but to pursue civil litigation against vaccine administrators as suggested by HHS. Medical malpractice and pharmacy negligence trial lawyers will need to get up to speed and prepared to handle these complex and significant claims. This introductory webinar will assist them in doing just that.

WEBINAR TOPIC: Suing vaccine administrators: HHS requiring lawsuits against the healthcare providers who give Americans their vaccinations.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Medical malpractice trial lawyers; pharmacy negligence trial lawyers; and representatives of doctors, nurses, and pharmacists that administer vaccinations.

WHEN: April 28, 2020 at 2pm EST

READING MATERIAL: We suggest that you read the following material to prepare for the webinar:

Article in the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Science magazine providing background on the proposed rule change: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/us-wants-end-most-payouts-leading-vaccination-related-injury

The United States Department of Health & Human Service's proposed rule change and a position statement in support of the rule change: https://www.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/SIRVA%20Insider.VICP%20NPRM%20for%20ACCV%20submission_2.13.20.pdf

Maglio Christopher & Toale, PA's position statement opposing the rule change:
https://www.mctlaw.com/statement-against-proposal-to-remove-sirva-from-vaccine-injury-table/

CONTACT:

Altom M. Maglio, Managing Partner
Maglio Christopher & Toale, P.A. | mctlaw
(888) 952-5242

SOURCE: Maglio Christopher & Toale, P.A.

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