August 15, 2001
>

>

> "VACCINE INJURY ALLIANCE"

>

> www.vaccineinjury.org

>

>

> (HOUSTON, TEXAS-August 15, 2001)

>

> The Williams Bailey Law Firm, L.L.P., (Houston, Texas) has 
assembled a

> strategic alliance of the leading law firms in the country to make 
people

> aware of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program 
("NVICP") and

> vigorously prosecute vaccine injury claims on a number of 
different

fronts"

> according to John Eddie Williams, Jr., Managing Partner. "We will 
be

> offering our clients a full service individualized approach to 
vaccine

> injury claims; from filing and administering claims under the 
NVICP, to

> pursuing individual civil actions across the nation if the Program 
denies

a

> claim or awards an inadequate amount of compensation for the 
adverse

> reactions suffered".

>

> In 1986 Congress established the NVICP to compensate victims, 
protect

> vaccine manufacturers and health care personnel administering 
vaccines

from

> liability resulting from vaccine related injuries and deaths.  Even 
though

> the enabling legislation that created the NVICP requires the 
Secretary of

> the Department of Health and Human Services to "undertake 
reasonable

efforts

> to inform the public of the availability of the Program", most 
parents,

> teachers, physicians, and even many attorneys, are unaware of 
the

existence

> of this program, let alone the three year (3 year) statute of 
limitations

> that may bar claims that are not timely filed.  "The Secretary has

obviously

> done very little, if anything to fulfill this directive, so we will,"

> according to Jeff Sell, an attorney working with the William 
Bailey Law

> Firm.

>

> The limitation provision buried within the NVICP states:

>

>

> "a vaccine set forth in the Vaccine Injury Table which is 
administered

after

> October 1, 1988, if a vaccine-related injury occurred as a result 
of the

> administration of such vaccine, no petition may be filed for 
compensation

> under the Program for such injury after the expiration of 36 
months [48

> months with respect to death claims] after the date of the 
occurrence of

the

> first symptom or manifestation of onset or of the significant 
aggravation

of

> such injury." 42 USC Sec. 300aa-16.

>

>

> The strategic "vaccine alliance" includes: Williams Bailey Law 
Firm,

L.L.P.

> (Houston), Conway, Homer & Chin-Caplan, P.C. (Boston), 
Shoemaker & Horn

> (Vienna, VA), Blizzard & McCarthy (Houston) and Hitt, Patterson & 
Sell--

> www.HittPattersonSell.com (Houston) and others. Some of these 
firms have

for

> years specialized in representing individuals under the NVICP 
who have

been

> injured by vaccinations.

>

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