Under federal law, vaccine manufacturers benefit from significant lawsuit protections, including being shielded against suits about design defects. These protections are paired with a fund that is ...

Efforts are underway on Capitol Hill and in the Trump administration that raise the possibility of repealing the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (NCVIA), a public law that established a ...

The End the Vaccine Carveout Act would expose vaccine makers to lawsuits that once drove companies out of the industry.

HHS has extended liability protections for COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and diagnostic tests under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act through Dec. 31, 2029. This extension follows ...

Two conservative Republican senators are attempting to do away with the liability shield for vaccine manufacturers, as a measure to provide justice for patients who have adverse side effects from ...

WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee discussed whether vaccine manufacturers should be held to more account in the wake of the COVID pandemic and some of the difficulties with vaccines that ...

The surge in vaccine litigation is not simply a post-pandemic, temporary issue. It is a deeper erosion of the legal principles that have long supported public health authority.