Professor Nora Freeman Engstrom’s study on vaccine court is cited in this San Jose Mercury News article for both the courts sucesses and failures. 

Vaccines remain one of the greatest success stories in public health. But for some Americans, rare side effects of inoculations have led to hardship, serious injury, even death.

For almost three decades, the federal government has quietly acknowledged as much: It has paid out more than $3.2 billion to 4,150 individuals and families for injuries caused by everything from flu, diphtheria and tetanus shots to whooping cough vaccines.

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In a detailed study of the vaccine court published last month, Stanford law professor Nora Freeman Engstrom concluded that while the program “has done certain things well,” it has largely “failed to expedite cases and rationalize compensation decisions.”