It is not the first defeat and for people who attribute their suffering to treatment with a drug they are always bitter. The 2nd Civil Chamber of the Rottweil Regional Court dismissed a man’s lawsuit against biotech on Wednesday. A 58-year-old man claims vaccine damage. He attributes the vaccination with the Comirnaty vaccine to a “massive deterioration in vision in the right eye as a result of an eye infarction.” He demanded 150,000 euros in compensation from Biontech and demanded that he be compensated for all material and other non-material damage due to the health impairment.
This is not the first trial of its kind in Germany. And it is not the first decision by a court in this context. The Mainz-based company Biontech has so far rejected an amicable agreement. Most recently, in mid-November, the Düsseldorf regional court dismissed lawsuits against two vaccine manufacturers due to alleged damage caused by corona vaccinations as unfounded. Two women and a man from Kaarst, Meerbusch and Düsseldorf had filed a lawsuit against Biontech. They are demanding a total of almost half a million euros in compensation and more than 30,000 euros in material damages due to alleged permanent damage.
The plaintiff should have presented scientific evidence, the court said
The Rottweil regional court did not investigate the question of whether the Biontech vaccine caused the eye attack, but rather saw the requirements for claims not being met.
The plaintiff would have had to prove that errors were made in the approval process or that new scientific findings led to a changed assessment of the benefit-risk ratio. He couldn’t do that. According to the court’s statement, the plaintiff relied on “unverified suspected reports of vaccine damage, individual opinions taken from the Internet, particularly on the spike protein, non-scientific opinions from doctors commissioned by the plaintiff or factually incorrect criticism of Paul’s safety reports -Ehrlich Institute”. The chamber also did not see any further explanation of the plaintiff’s alleged political influence on the admission decisions.
It is not the only procedure in Rottweil. According to a spokesman, two further lawsuits were heard on Monday and the verdicts will be announced in January and February 2024. A fourth lawsuit will be heard in January. The man can appeal against Wednesday’s verdict.
According to its own information, Biontech has received “an extremely small number of lawsuits due to potential vaccination side effects” to date. It is estimated that more than 1.5 billion people worldwide and more than 65 million people in Germany have been vaccinated with Comirnaty. In the cases known to Biontech, the health impairments presented were “individually and carefully examined” on the basis of all the information provided. The conclusion was reached that both the claims asserted in court and the lawsuits pending before various courts were unfounded. “Biontech would fulfill legitimate claims,” the company replied in writing to questions from the SZ. To date, Biontech has not set aside any provisions to cover any claims for damages.