Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Shift COVID-19 Vaccine Injury Claims to Better-Run Program

Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Shift COVID-19 Vaccine Injury Claims to Better-Run Program

Lawmakers have unveiled legislation that gives people who say they were injured by COVID-19 vaccines a better chance to receive compensation. The new bill from Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) and Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.) would shift COVID-19 vaccine injury claims from the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program—which has rejected claims from many people, including some who doctors diagnosed as being injured by COVID-19 vaccines—to the Vaccine Inj…