US Supreme Court upholds lawsuit protection for vaccine makers
This article was originally published in SRA
Executive Summary
The US Supreme Court in a 6-2 ruling upheld rulings from lower courts that the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (NCVIA) pre-empts all design-defect claims against manufacturers brought by plaintiffs seeking compensation for injury or death caused by vaccines, rejecting a suit brought against Pfizer's Wyeth unit1.