THE VACCINE INJURY
COMPENSATION PROGRAM
Congress established the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) in 1986 to create a standardized national immunization program that indemnifies the medical/pharmaceutical industry from lawsuits, compensates those injured, and promotes safer vaccines. VICP was seen as beneficial to increasing public trust in vaccines and honoring the social compact, much like our society looks after veterans because they fought to defend the collective good. Congress made it fundamentally clear that compensation must be no-fault, swift, generous and awarded in a non-adversarial manner. Read more here......
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