O'Connell J
Vaccine. 1984 Sep;2(3):173-6. doi: 10.1016/0264-410x(84)90080-x.
Under tort law in effect throughout most of the western world, a party injured by adverse effects from a vaccine can be paid under a legal claim only by proving the manufacturer or its product faulty. If successful, the claimant would be paid not only for his medical expense and wage loss but for his pain and suffering. But proving (a) the defendant's conduct or product faulty and (b) the monetary value of nonmonetary loss (pain and suffering) is usually so complex that many injury victims are paid not at all, or only a fraction of their losses in settlement, only after long delay, and only after lawyers on both sides are paid large amounts of insurance dollars in litigation costs.
在西方世界大部分地区现行的侵权法下，因疫苗不良反应而受伤的一方只有在证明制造商或其产品存在缺陷的情况下，才能通过法律索赔获得赔偿。如果索赔成功，索赔人不仅会得到医疗费用和工资损失的赔偿，还会得到痛苦和折磨的赔偿。但是，证明（a）被告的行为或产品存在缺陷以及（b）非货币损失（痛苦和折磨）的货币价值通常非常复杂，以至于许多受害者根本得不到赔偿，或者在和解中只得到其损失的一小部分，而且要经过长时间的拖延，只有在双方律师获得大量保险金作为诉讼费用之后才得到赔偿。
