Record compensation. A former nurse who suffered from multiple sclerosisafter being vaccinated against hepatitis B won his case in court. The state will have to pay him 2.4 million euros in compensation for damage related to “vaccination injections”, ruled the Administrative Court of Appeal of Nancy.
While the link between hepatitis B and vaccination against hepatitis B is not scientifically established, the victim wins a legal battle that began a long time ago.
Vaccinated in 1991, the young woman was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 1994. A disease that led her to take early retirement in 1997 due to a permanent partial disability of 60%. In 2003, she sought compensation by filing an appeal with the Ministry of Health. After having suffered a failure in 2006 by a judgment of the Administrative Court of Besançon in 2006, it waits for 2012 and a decision of the Administrative Court of Nancy to learn that expertise of the damage suffered will be carried out.
The first victory fell last June when the State was ordered to pay him 350,000 euros for this damage. “Her prospects for professional development have been reduced due to her disability (and) she thus justifies a certain prejudice of a professional nature”, considers the judgment, taken up by AFP.
The loss of autonomy recognized by justice
But it does not stop there since to this sum is added the amount of the overall personal damage as well as the costs of reimbursement of health expenses related to the disease and the loss of autonomy, which makes a total of nearly 2.4 million euros.
In France, vaccination against hepatitis B is recommended for all infants, children and adolescents up to the age of 15. Populations at risk of exposure to the virus are also targeted.
