The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that vaccine manufacturers are shielded against certain types of personal injury lawsuits due to a 1986 law that established a no-fault compensation system for injuries linked to childhood vaccines.
The case of Brueswitz v. Wyeth LLC involved a Pennsylvania family that sued drug manufacturer Wyeth, alleging that their daughter became disabled after receiving a DTP (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis) vaccine. Their claim was initially rejected by a state court and two lower federal courts because of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.
The U. S. Supreme Court upheld the two lower federal court rulings, saying that the law protects vaccine manufacturers from personal injury lawsuits that are based on a theory that the vaccine could have been designed to be safer.
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