Rep, Chip Roy, R-Texas announced a new bill that would allow Americans to sue Covid-19 vaccine makers over adverse side effects.
Most manufacturers and health care providers are immune from Covid-19 vaccine liability. The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act of 2005 limits liability for the manufacturing, development and distribution of medical countermeasures related to a public health emergency.
In an exclusive conversation with KTRH, Roy said quote, "All these companies are going to make billions of dollars and then say, sorry you don't really get much of a liability path. In what friggin' planet is that not the worst form of corporate cronyism you could possible imagine. And yet that's what we've done in a supposedly free country. It's outrageous."
The Let Injured Americans Be Legally Empowered (LIABLE) Act is aimed at wiping away COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers’ statutory protections, opening them up to civil lawsuits.
"We've got large swaths of the American people that have been impacted by it, unable to get recourse for harms that have happened to them" Roy told KTRH, "So, we go back and we repeal that liability protection for Covid vaccines specifically."
Despite nearly 700 million doses being administered, only 11 injury claims have been paid out.