OT: Tell Congress you want justice for Vaccine Injured Children

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Tell Congress You Want Justice For Vaccine Injured Children!

Join Our Action For Justice for Vaccine Injured Children

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Support the `National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Improvement

Act of 2008'

INJUSTICE!

Support the `National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Improvement

Act of 2008'

Bill No. H.R. 6391 in the House of Representatives

Read the bill here:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-6391

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INJUSTICE!

That's what we call shutting the courthouse door to tens of

thousands of children with lifelong disabilities. That is what is

happening in the " vaccine court " , a special court that is part of the

United States Court of Federal Claims. " Vaccine court " was established

in the 1980's as a tort reform measure that was supposed to make it

easier for children who have suffered vaccine injuries to obtain just

compensation while giving legal protection to the vaccine manufacturers.

Congress established a short time period for filing claims:

claimants are required to file their claim within three years of the

onset of symptoms of their vaccine injury. Contrast this short period

with the time period allowed for children bringing claims in most

states for personal injuries of other types – children can bring

claims until they are 21 years of age - and the enormity of the change

becomes apparent. Add to this the fact that it is not always clear

when some vaccine injuries occur – most pediatricians do not recognize

the signs of neurodevelopmental disorders such as " autism " nor do they

even recognize that autism may be the result of a vaccine injury. The

outcome is that many parents of injured children never knew that they

had a claim. In some cases their right to bring a claim evaporated

before parents could have legally filed one – an absurd legal

circumstance that requires change.

The `National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Improvement Act

of 2008' remedies this and other inadequacies of the current law by

doing the following, among other reforms:

* Extending the time period to file claims to 6 years and

giving all claimants a two year window to file claims even if they

were previously barred by the three-year limitation

* Providing for interim compensation for attorneys

representing vaccine injury claimants – under the current law

attorneys have been working for five years or more without any

compensation, whatsoever.

* Making the formula for calculating just compensation for

injured children fairer and raising the maximum limits for such awards

* Providing for better community representation on and

accountability by the administrators of the vaccine injury

compensation program

Read the bill here:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-6391

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