We cannot represent you in a COVID-19 vaccine injury claim right now. You should know that before you read anything else here, because the rest of this page only makes sense once you do.
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We cannot represent you in a COVID-19 vaccine claim at this time. If the law changes, we will email you. There is no cost and no obligation.
What we can do is keep a record of your injury, and email you if the law changes. That is the honest extent of it, and we would rather tell you at the top of the page than let you find out at the bottom.
Why your claim cannot go to court
If a COVID-19 vaccine injured you, federal law does not send your claim to a courtroom. It sends it to the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program — the CICP — administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration.
The CICP has no court, no judge and no legal oversight. There is nothing our lawyers can do for you inside it. That is not a comment on your injury or on how serious it is. It is a limitation in how the law was built, and it applies to every person who was hurt by a COVID-19 vaccine, no matter how strong their case would have been in front of a jury.
The program publishes its own information about what it covers, how it works and how to file, at hrsa.gov/cicp. Whether you pursue that route is your decision. We take no position on it either way, and we are not going to tell you what to do with a program we cannot enter alongside you.
Why a different program would change everything
Injuries following routine vaccines are not handled by the CICP. They go to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program — the VICP — which carries due-process protections and allows damages for pain and suffering that the CICP does not. COVID-19 vaccine claims go to the CICP instead.
That single distinction is the whole reason we can represent some injured people and not you. It is not about the strength of your evidence. It is about which program your vaccine happens to fall under.
The bill we are watching, and exactly where it stands
On July 14, 2026, Representative Lloyd Doggett of Texas introduced the Vaccine Injury Compensation Modernization Act of 2026, H.R. 9672, cosponsored by Representative Lloyd Smucker of Pennsylvania. It would move COVID-19 vaccine claims — along with RSV, shingles and dengue vaccine claims — out of the CICP and into the VICP.
Here is precisely where that bill is. On the day it was introduced, it was referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and additionally to the Committee on Ways and Means. Those referrals are the only actions recorded against it. There has been no hearing, no markup and no floor vote, and its official status remains “Introduced.”
We are not going to dress that up. Bills of this shape have come before. H.R. 3655 was introduced in 2021 and H.R. 5142 in 2023, and neither became law. A bill with a sponsor, a cosponsor and two committee referrals is a real bill — and it is also a bill that has not moved in the months since it was filed. You should weigh those odds yourself rather than take our optimism on faith, because our optimism is not evidence.
What we are doing, and what we are not
We are not filing CICP claims for anyone. We are not evaluating COVID-19 vaccine injury cases. We are not signing clients for them, and we are not going to ask you for a consultation about a case we cannot take. If another firm tells you something different, ask them plainly what they intend to do for you inside a program that has no judge.
What we are doing is keeping your information organized and current, so that it is ready the moment it can be used. If H.R. 9672 moves — a committee hearing, a floor vote, enactment, or an action by HHS that opens a real route — the people able to act fastest will be the ones whose details are already in one place. If that happens, we will email you.
Not a newsletter, and not marketing. A notice that the law may now allow us to represent you.
There is no cost and no obligation, now or later. We will not call you about a case we cannot take. If you would rather we did not keep your information at all, tell us and we will remove it.
If your injury followed a vaccine other than COVID-19
Injuries following vaccines other than COVID-19 are handled under the VICP, the program that does allow you to be represented by a lawyer. Our firm does not handle those claims. If that is your situation, we would encourage you to speak with a firm that does, rather than adding your name to a list that exists for a different problem.
What we keep, and what we use it for
We keep your name, your email address, the approximate date of your injury, which vaccine you received, and whether you have already filed with the CICP. We keep those details so that if the law changes we can reach you quickly and tell you something accurate about your own situation rather than sending everyone the same generic notice.
We will not enroll you in a mailing list, and we will not use your information to pitch you services unrelated to this. If you ask us to remove you, we remove you, and that is the end of it.
If you contacted us before today, your information came in through an older form and may be thinner — often just a name, an email address and what you wrote to us at the time. That is still enough for us to reach you.
Why this page reads the way it does
We told people who contacted us that we would keep them updated, and for a long stretch we did not do that well. Some of you wrote to us years ago and heard very little back. This page, and the emails that go with it, are how we are correcting that.
If you have already sent us your information, it is on file. You do not need to send it again.
Last reviewed September 1, 2026.