Barbara Amendola and Warren Amendola, as Parents and Guardians of Christopher Amendola v. Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services

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• dismissing petitioners’ vaccine claim where petitioners previously filed a civil action in state court against the physician who administered the vaccine for medical malpractice
• distinguishing “true” vaccine injury from “a situation in which the direct cause of the injury was a contaminated needle, or the doctor’s negligent dropping of an infant patient”
• “there is some support in the statute and legislative history for the proposition that the Act was not drafted with the problem of iatrogenic injury in mind”
• claim against physician was vaccine-related because “the injury resulted from the administration of the vaccine,” even though only negligence alleged was in decision to give the vaccine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).