Abstract
The COVID pandemic highlighted the importance of vaccine development and availability worldwide. Operation Warp-Speed in the United States accelerated vaccine production by several major pharmaceutical manufacturers, averting some of the normal administrative processes. The result has been a financial windfall for those companies. Some recent data has shown that the COVID vaccine can cause negative side effects in some patients. There are provisions in U.S. law that allow victims of vaccine injuries to recover compensation through the court system. However, even then tort remedies are limited by federal law. Since the review process was rushed during the pandemic, should tort immunity still be available to those pharmaceutical companies? This paper will discuss the legal and ethical issues involved in vaccine tort immunity.
Description
Copyright: © 2025 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/).
Publisher
MDPI
Date of publication
10-2025
Language
english
Persistent identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10950/4925
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Cowart, Tammy W. and Bock, Gregory L., "Tort Immunity Waiver for Vaccine Injuries: Ethical and Legal Perspectives" (2025). Accounting, Finance & Business Law Faculty Publications and Presentations. Paper 10.
http://hdl.handle.net/10950/4925