$43.1 Million Dollar Settlement for 7 Year-Old Vaccine Injury Victim
"A 7-year-old boy received $43.1 million in a settlement for a vaccine that rendered him a quadriplegic.The settlement, which will be paid through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, is thought to be one of the largest in its history, according to the plaintiff's attorney, Leland Dempsey. Mario Arturo Rodriguez was 1 on Jan. 25, 2000, when he received a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City.According to Dempsey, Rodriguez sustained a massive cervical spinal cord injury secondary to the development of transverse myelitis, an inflammation of the spinal cord that interrupts communication between the nerves and the rest of the body."
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