Atlanta lawyer can proceed with vaccine injury case according to Georgia Supreme Court
On Monday, the Georgia Supreme Court issued an important ruling in a vaccine injury case brought by the parents of Stefan Ferrri. The Georgia Supreme Court held that the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act does not preempt all state law tort claims for injuries that may have been caused by vaccines that were negligently designed.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution has the story.
This decision means that the lawsuit can proceed and, hopefully, the parents' claims will be heard by a Georgia jury. Published reports of a link between vaccines and autism make this decision vitally important to the thousands of Georgia children who received these vaccines.
We are closely following this case and hope it will open the door for other families to recover damages for vaccine injuries that have long been contested by the manufacturers. We think it's time for vaccine manufacturers and big drug companies to stop hiding behind the laws their lobbyists helped pass.
