not the first to win in court for autism!

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http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2008/03/phil-and-misty-hiatt-we-were.html

Sunday, March 09, 2008

Phil and Misty Hiatt: " We Were Compensated Too! "

I have calmed down from the appoplexia that

overtook me when learning that Hanna was not the

first autistic child to be paid from the Vaccine

Injury Compensation Fund, but at least the tenth,

to write about this somewhat coherently.

Since then Kirby, The Pensacola News

Journal, The Schafer Autism Report and the Age of

Autism's Dan Olmsted have joined CBS in reporting

that there are more families out there who want

to go public with their settlement stories.

As you may recall, in reporting on Hannah's story

on March 6th, Sharyl Attkisson on The CBS Evening

News reported that:

" While the Poling case is the first of its

kind to become public, a CBS News investigation

uncovered at least nine other cases as far back

as 1990, where records show the court ordered the

government compensated families whose children

developed autism or autistic-like symptoms in

children including toddlers who had been called

" very smart " and " impressed " doctors with their

" intelligence and curiosity " … until their

vaccinations.

They were children just like Hannah Poling. "

CBS News was apparently a few steps behind

Kirby, who on March 3rd posted on an autism list:

" And next week, I just might drop another

bombshell – A BIG one, from another case in VICP.

Turns out that people who settled with the

government now want their cases to be known as

well. They are seeking me out. You would be

AMAZED at what the government has secretly

admitted.

It contradicts many things that the Feds,

AAP, and SWORN government witnesses have been

saying publicly, under oath no less -- at least

on this one particular vaccine injury related

issue.

I love the smell of perjury charges in the

morning.

Stay tuned

Cheers "

CBS was a day ahead of the Pensacola News Journal

that wrote about the Hiatt family that got a

judgment in 2002:

In 1999, Misty and Phil Hiatt of Pensacola,

parents of 10-year-old triplets, were among the

first to assert a link between childhood vaccines

and autism-like symptoms.

Misty Hiatt said she and her husband, a

professional baseball player for 16 years, saw

their babies' lives change dramatically after

they received routine immunizations at 14 months.

She said daughter Madison began suffering

from severe autism-like symptoms. Daughters

and Mackenzie also were affected, though

less severely.

In 2002, the Hiatts received a settlement

from the National Vaccine Injuries Compensation

Program, a fund Congress set up to pay children

injured by vaccines and to protect makers from

damages as a way to help ensure an adequate

vaccine supply. Since the fund started in 1988,

it has paid about 950 claims — none for autism

but some for autism-like symptoms.

" The government settled with our family and

accepted responsibility for the injury the

vaccines caused my daughter, Madison, " Misty

Hiatt said.

I have already discussed the difference between

" autism " and " autism-like " symptoms. There is

none.

And today the Schafer Autism Report ran a letter

they got from the Hiatts saying that when they

got their settlement, they had the impression

that many other families like theirs had been

compensated:

" We Were Compensated, too.

We were also compensated by the Federal

Government in 2002. Our child suffered the same

diagnosis after her routine immunizations.

Encephalopathy with autistic like symptoms. I am

not sure why people think this is the first case?

Maybe they are just the first to go so public. I

wonder how many other families have been

compensated for the exact same symptoms? When we

settled with the government I did not get the

impression that we were that unique; quite the

opposite as I spoke to the Special Master (the

judge for the compensation program). - Misty

Hiatt "

Finally, today Dan Olmsted brings to our

attention a passage from an AP story in which

Golkiewicz, Chief Special Master for the

U.S. Court of Federal Claims who oversees the

vaccine court, tells us himself that Hannah's

case is not the singular exception that we have

been led to believe it is:

'Years ago, actually, I had a case, before we

understood or knew the implications of autism,

that the vaccine injured the child's brain caused

an encephalopathy,' he said. And the symptoms

that come with that 'all [fall?] within the broad

rubric of autism.'

And there are other somewhat similar cases,

Golkiewicz says, that were decided before autism

and its symptoms were more clearly defined. "

Two thoughts on that: We've known the

symptoms of autism since exactly 1943. And since

the vaccine court is known to be gruesomely

stingy, it's quite some admission to say there

were other, earlier cases. Maybe some of our

befuddled colleagues in the mainstream media

ought to find out more about those cases that,

according to the top judge, resulted in brain

injury and fall " within the broad rubric of

autism. "

And yet in the face of all this,

Gerberding, the head of the CDC said this about

the Hannah Poling case setting a precedent for

other cases of vaccine induced autism:

" This is a complete mischaracterization of

the findings of a very simple situation of one

child with an unusual disorder, and it would be

completely wrong to say that this has bearing to

the vast majority of children with autism, "

Gerberding is telling us that Hannah is a

rare exception. We now know that she is not.

Autism parents are going to spend tomorrow

calling the White House asking for her

resignation.

Either knew about these previous rulings,

in which case she is lying to us and should be

removed from her post, or she did not know about

these previous rulings, in which case she is

incompetent and should be removed from her post.

What this means is that for almost 20 years the

government has had the evidence that vaccines

cause autism and they have buried it and lied to

the public. For two decades doctors have been

denied the information they needed to make

responsible health decisions for their patients.

The parent of every child vaccinated since 1990

has been denied " informed consent " in their

decision making process on if and how to

vaccinate their children. How many hundreds of

millions of children is that? Or billions?

What this means to my family is that a full year

after paying the Hiatts for their daughter's

vaccine induced autism, they were telling me that

it was safe to vaccinate Chandler with out fear

of having his shots trigger autism, resulting in

my son's vaccine induced “Autism-like symptoms”.

In light of all this, I am calling for

congressional hearings to find out what the

government knew and when they knew it.

I am calling for full disclosure on the part of

the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to

release every case of a child who was paid for

their " Autism-like " vaccine injury so we can get

to the bottom of the vaccine/autism connection.

Because those cases hold vital clues to what has

happened to my son, and what treatments might

heal him.

If the families involved do not want their

details released, the cases can be presented in

such a way as to protect their privacy. But if

what Kirby is reporting, that families are

coming to him to make their cases known, such

privacy measures may not be needed.

I am looking forward to seeing what new

information Kirby and any other journalist

that has begun to wake up to this miscarriage of

justice can bring us about these other cases.

.... and if this pans out the way it looks like it

is going to... Kirby is right... some people need

to go to jail.

Posted by Ginger at 3:02 PM

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do

than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe

harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.” –Mark Twain