Brian Dean Abramson
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
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"[This book] covers the wide range of laws and issues that impact the field, including: FDA oversight, enforcement, and regulation of the research and development process; public mandates, including mandatory child vaccinations, opposition, and the legal consequences of failure to vaccinate, as well as medical, religious, and philosophical exemptions; state-by-state coverage of each jurisdiction's common requirements and unique legal characteristics related to childhood and adult vaccinations, state exemptions, administration of vaccines, and isolation and quarantine matters; patent law elements important to securing and enforcing protection for vaccines, as well as other intellectual property protections such as trademark, trade secret, unfair competition, and copyright law; compensation for vaccine injuries under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP), injuries listed in the Vaccine Injury Table, jurisdictional prerequisites, filings, and substantive and post-judgment proceedings Injury claims outside the NVICP such as products liability, failure to warn, medical malpractice, punitive damages and more; reporting via the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), with specifics on who may or must report and what are reportable events; specific vaccines, mandated, unmandated, or in development, as well as other ingredients in vaccines Access to, and promotion of, vaccines, and funding and cost issues."--