title: No-fault insurance for vaccine related injuries. Jeffrey O'Connell proposes an alternative insurance scheme for vaccine-injury victims.
abstract: Under tort law in effect throughout most of the western world, a party injured by adverse effects from a vaccine can be paid under a legal claim only by proving the manufacturer or its product faulty. If successful, the claimant would be paid not only for his medical expense and wage loss but for his pain and suffering. But proving (a) the defendant's conduct or product faulty and (b) the monetary value of nonmonetary loss (pain and suffering) is usually so complex that many injury victims are paid not at all, or only a fraction of their losses in settlement, only after long delay, and only after lawyers on both sides are paid large amounts of insurance dollars in litigation costs.
mesh_terms: D001265:Athletic Injuries; D006801:Humans; D007344:Insurance Claim Reporting; D007346:Insurance, Accident; D007351:Insurance, Liability / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States; D014612:Vaccines / Q000009:adverse effects*
chemical_list: D014612:Vaccines