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| | The '''Vaccine Injury Compensation Program''' (VICP) is a no-fault fund set up in 1988 by the United States Department of Health and Human Services to indemnify medical doctors and vaccine manufacturers from liability in cases of injuries caused by vaccines. | | The '''Vaccine Injury Compensation Program''' (VICP) is a no-fault fund set up in 1988 by the United States Department of Health and Human Services to indemnify medical doctors and vaccine manufacturers from liability in cases of injuries caused by vaccines. |
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| − | The maximum benefit for death is $250,000 plus attorneys'.<ref name="Filinig a claim"/> As of 2007, the fund had paid out $1.18 billion to 1,500 victims, including attorneys' fees, burial and medical costs, for an average payout that exceeds $786,000 per victim.<ref name="About NVICP">{{hnb|United States Department of Justice|2000}}</ref> | + | The maximum benefit for death is $250,000 plus attorneys'.<ref name="Filinig a claim"/> "The total awards paid [from the Compensation Trust Fund] as of August 6, 2008 were $1,804,415,262.35, which includes [government] attorney fees and costs for petitions that were dismissed."<ref>Email dated Aug. 7, 2008, from Geoffrey Evans, MD, Director, Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation. He added, "To obtain further information you seek, please visit our web site at: |
| | + | www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation."</ref> As of 2007, the fund had paid out $1.18 billion to 1,500 victims, including attorneys' fees, burial and medical costs, for an average payout that exceeds $786,000 per victim.<ref name="About NVICP">{{hnb|United States Department of Justice|2000}}</ref> |
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| | The vaccines covered by the compensation service are those aimed at protecting against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), measles, mumps, rubella (German measles), polio, hepatitis B, varicella (chicken pox), ''Hemophilus influenzae'' type b, and [[rotavirus]]. Pneumococcal vaccine is expected to be covered soon. | | The vaccines covered by the compensation service are those aimed at protecting against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), measles, mumps, rubella (German measles), polio, hepatitis B, varicella (chicken pox), ''Hemophilus influenzae'' type b, and [[rotavirus]]. Pneumococcal vaccine is expected to be covered soon. |