Federal Circuit Upholds Denial Of Award For Vaccine SIDS Death Claim

Mealey's (November 11, 2019, 1:44 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A majority of a Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Nov. 7 affirmed a trial court’s reversal of compensation for parents who say their infant died from vaccinations that caused his sudden crib death, with a dissenting judge saying the ruling goes against the purpose of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (Chase Boatmon, et al. v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, No. 18-2333, Fed. Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 33295)....