Attention Alabama Residents

[Guest guest]

If interested in adding your name to a petition to support HR 3741

please email me at hacodaki@c... and I will be more than happy to

add your name to the list. This bill is VERY important, especially for

the older children as it would allow a one time chance to file with

NVICP even though the statute of limitations has passed. (Only for

injuries occuring after 1988).

The petition reads as follows...

We, the undersigned, are requesting your support and assistance to

insure the passage of bill HR3741.

Since 1988, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP)

has been the principal source of compensation for families whose

children have suffered vaccine-related injuries. The NVICP was

intended by Congress to compensate families generously through a

non-adversarial process. However, during hearings before the

Government Reform Committee, the program has been criticized for

becoming overly litigious and less compassionate than intended by

Congress.

The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Improvement Act of

2002 (H.R. 3741) is bipartisan legislation that builds on a set of

recommendations to improve the program put forward by the Advisory

Committee on Childhood Vaccines. The bill would:

· Extend the statute of limitations for seeking compensation from

three years to six years.

· Provide a one-time, two-year period for families to file a

petition

if they were previously excluded from doing so because they missed the

statute of limitations. (Only for vaccine injuries incurred after

1988.)

· Increase the level of compensation to a family after a

vaccine-related death from $250,000 to $300,000. The death benefit has

remained unchanged since 1986.

· Allow families of vaccine-injured children to be compensated for

the

costs of family counseling and creating and maintaining a guardianship

to administer the funds.

· Allow for the payment of interim attorneys fees and legal costs

during the sometimes lengthy adjudication process.

Please support families of vaccine-injured children by cosponsoring HR

3741 today.

Thank You.