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>>13443663 “We’re Not Gonna Take It Anymore” -Lin Wood
One more time. I like it.
Yep.
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Can I Sue Vaccine Manufacturers?
The short answer is, no, you likely cannot sue the vaccine manufacturer. However, you may still be able to be compensated for your child's injuries through another process called the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
Why Can't Drug Companies Be Sued for Vaccine Injuries?
When most drugs cause harm, the pharmaceutical companies that make them can be sued in product liability lawsuits. But that isn't the case with vaccines. In 1986, Congress passed a law that protects vaccine manufacturers from being sued in civil personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits resulting from vaccine injuries.
Both drugmakers and federal government officials admit that although vaccines are created with the purpose of keeping the public safe, they can cause rare but serious, and sometimes fatal, side effects.
In the 1970s and 80s, drugmakers paid out millions to plaintiffs in hundreds of vaccine-related injury lawsuits. The litigation was complex and expensive because of how difficult it is to show epidemiological cause and effect in these cases.
Eventually, some drugmakers decided to stop making vaccines altogether. This drew alarm from public health officials, who worried about sustaining existing vaccines and also the development of new vaccines.
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act
Congress stepped in with the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (the Vaccine Act) as a way to ensure that the injured would receive compensation, but also to protect drugmakers from open-ended liability.
In 2011, an important United States Supreme Court ruling clarified the type of lawsuits vaccine manufacturers are protected from under the Vaccine Act. In a 6-2 decision, the Court ruled that the federal law protects drugmakers from design-defect claims as long as the vaccine was properly manufactured and carried adequate warnings labels.
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
When Congress granted drug companies immunity in regular court with the Vaccine Act, it established the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The no-fault compensation program was created as its own "court" to compensate those who claim to have suffered side effects caused by vaccines.
Since the program was created in the late 1980s, it has paid out more than $4 billion to those who said they were harmed by vaccines. The average payment per injured party from 2013 to 2017 was about $430,000, with an average of $229 million per year in total.
How Does the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Work?
Because the program is not fault-based, people claiming vaccine injuries do not have to prove that the vaccine actually caused the injury. Instead, they only have to show that the injury occurred immediately after the vaccine was given.
Additionally, the vaccine-related injury has to be included on the vaccine court's list of side effects, called the Vaccine Injury Table. The vaccine involved must also be covered by the program. All routinely administered vaccines are included:
Who Can File a Vaccine Injury Petition?
Anyone who has received a covered vaccine and believes they have been injured as a result can file a claim with the program. Parents or legal guardians can file on behalf of their children. Legal representatives are permitted to file on behalf of the disabled and deceased.
However, all claims (with limited exceptions) must be filed within three years of the first symptoms, or within two years of death and within four years of the first symptoms that resulted in death.
https://healthcare.findlaw.com/patient-rights/can-i-sue-vaccine-manufacturers-.html
Roger Stone Sued for $2 Million in Unpaid Taxes and Interest
Roger Stone and his wife Nydia Stone are being sued by the U.S. government for nearly $2 million dollars in federal taxes, interest, and penalties.
The liabilities include nearly $1.6 million arising from joint tax returns filed by the pair for tax years 2007 to 2011, plus more than $400,000 that Roger Stone owes individually from 2018, the government said. The complaint was filed Friday at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Roger Stone was indicted in January of 2019 on charges of obstruction, making false statements, and witness tampering connected to Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Following that indictment, the Stones created a trust and used funds through a company they controlled—Drake Ventures LLC—to buy their Florida residence in the name of the trust, according to the complaint. They then stopped making scheduled monthly installment payments of around $20,000 to the IRS, leading the IRS to terminate an installment agreement it had with them, the government said.
“Although they used funds held in Drake Ventures accounts to pay some of their taxes, the Stones’ use of Drake Ventures to hold their funds allowed them to shield their personal income from enforced collection and fund a lavish lifestyle despite owing nearly $2 million in unpaid taxes, interest and penalties,” according to the complaint.
The Stones put more than $1 million in accounts at Drake Ventures in 2018 and 2019 by transferring funds or having checks for Roger Stone deposited there, thereby evading IRS efforts to collect on the liabilities, the government said. They paid more than $500,000 on their personal tax liabilities from the company’s accounts during those years while also using the funds on groceries, salons, and clothes, the government added.
The government asked the federal court to enter judgments against the Stones for the amounts each of them purportedly owes and declare that the residence belongs to the Stones. It also wants the court to declare that tax liens arising from the couple’s liability are enforceable against the residence as well as other property held by the Stones, Drake Ventures, and the trust.
Former President Donald Trump commuted Stone’s prison sentence connected to the criminal charges and later granted Stone a pardon. The presidential pardon power doesn’t extend to civil actions such as the Friday complaint over tax liability.
The Stones live in Florida, where there are no state income taxes.
Contact information for the Stones wasn’t immediately available.
The case is United States v. Stone, S.D. Fla., No. 0:21-cv-60825, complaint 4/16/21.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-tax-report/roger-stone-sued-for-2-million-in-unpaid-taxes-and-interest
Any updates?
It's going to continue. They're not in my town.
Damn. Too much info.
I am with you. We just need to get rid of politicians and problems solved. I will settle for term limits.
God, please watch over her.
Right.