The program, created by Congress, allows people who believe they were injured by vaccines to apply for financial compensation.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is promoting his plan to “fix” the system that HHS uses to compensate people injured by vaccines.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the vaccine injury court favours the government, delays justice, and must be fixed to serve victims as intended.

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday that he is working with the Justice Department to overhaul a national program that compensates people injured by vaccination.

The seeds of a court case that has lasted for more than 20 years were planted in February 2001, when the parents of 11-month-old Yates Hazlehurst took him to the doctor for a routine measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. Soon after, his family would allege in a court hearing, Yates became “wild,” “very hyperactive,” and “out of control.”

In his latest shakeup to health policy in the United States, President Donald Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services, notorious tanti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced his plan to make major changes to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program,

The plaintiffs in the case sued under West Virginia's “Equal Protection for Religion Act,” which went into law in 2023.

Court benches were full on the morning of Thursday, July 24, 2025, as the public listened in on the latest developments in a legal battle over school vaccine requirements. Raleigh County Circuit Court Judge Michael Froble has officially granted a preliminary injunction to three Raleigh County students,