Abstract
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, as amended, established the Vaccine
Injury Compensation Program (VICP). The VICP went into effect on October 1, 1988 and
is a Federal “no-fault” system designed to compensate individuals, or families of
individuals, who have been injured by covered vaccines. From 1988 until July 2006,
a total of 2531 non-autism/thimerosal and 5030 autism/thimerosal claims were made
to the VICP. The compensation paid for the non-autism/thimerosal claims from 1988
until 2006 was $902,519,103.37 for 2542 awards. There was no compensation for any
of the autism/thimerosal claims. On the basis of the deaths and extensive suffering
to patients and families from the adverse reactions to vaccines, all physicians must
provide detailed information in the Vaccine Information Statement to the patient or
the parent or legal guardian of the child about the potential dangers of vaccines
as well as the VICP.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: June 18, 2007
Accepted:
January 14,
2007
Received in revised form:
December 22,
2006
Received:
July 7,
2006
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© 2007 Elsevier Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
