It is very rare for a blanket immunity law to be passed, said Rogge Dunn, a Dallas labor and employment attorney. Pharmaceutical companies typically aren t offered much liability protection under the law.
You also can t sue the Food and Drug Administration for authorizing a vaccine for emergency use, nor can you hold your employer accountable if they mandate inoculation as a condition of employment.
Congress created a fund specifically to help cover lost wages and out-of-pocket medical expenses for people who have been irreparably harmed by a covered countermeasure, such as a vaccine. But it is difficult to use and rarely pays. Attorneys say it has compensated less than 6% of the claims filed in the last decade.
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