COVID Shot Injury Claims Rarely Being Paid by U.S. Government

A report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) showed that claims made under the Health and Human Services (HHS) Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) during the first few years of the COVID-19 pandemic have risen 27 percent since the program started receiving claims in 2009. However, only three percent of the COVID shot injury […]
Government Spending Bill Extends Deadline for Filing COVID-19 Injury Claims

A new U.S. government spending bill will extend the time for those injured by the COVID-19 shot to file for federal vaccine injury compensation under the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP). Under the bill, certain claimants previously denied compensation will be permitted to refile their claims. under the bill, as well. The continuing resolution bill […]
Doctor Sued for Coercing Minor Children to Get Vaccinated

A mother in Washington, DC is suing a doctor for allegedly forcing her teenaged daughter and son to receive COVID-19 shots without her informed consent. NaToya McNeil claims that Janine Rethy, MD, MPH, chief of community pediatrics at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, isolated her children in a room in a mobile clinic and refused to […]
Taiwan Compensates Family of Girl Who Died Days After Getting Second Dose of Pfizer’s COVID Shot

The Ministry of Health and Welfare of Taiwan has agreed to pay $114,829 under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) to the family of a young girl in Taoyuan, Taiwan, who died of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) within days of receiving the second dose of Pfizer/BioNTech’s Comirnaty COVID-19 messenger RNA (mRNA) shot. […]
COVID-19 Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Described as Legal Black Hole

Attorneys familiar with vaccine injury claims have described the current compensation program for COVID-19 vaccines as a legal “black hole” and inadequate for addressing the vaccine injury claims associated with the fast-tracked COVID vaccines.1 Attorney Altom Maglio says he has been contacted by hundreds of people who suspect they have suffered COVID vaccine-related injuries but […]
Claims for Injury, Death from COVID Shots Surge

Opinion | The Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) is a program of the U.S. government that provide financial compensation for people who have suffered serious injuries or death from vaccines, biologics, antivirals or other drugs, as well medical devices used to “diagnose, prevent or treat a declared pandemic, epidemic or security threat.” The program was […]