A German resident has filed a lawsuit against BioNTech due to alleged negative side effects of its COVID-19 vaccine.
The plaintiff, a woman, is suing BioNtech for compensation of at least 150,000 euros ($161,226) for bodily harm allegedly resulting from its COVID-19 vaccine. According to the plaintiff, who has not made her name public, she suffered from swollen extremities, fatigue, sleeping disorder, and pain in the upper body following vaccination. The first case hearing was scheduled at a regional court in Hamburg on Monday.
Speaking to Reuters, Tobias Ulbrich, a lawyer at Rogert & Ulbrich representing the plaintiff, said he wants to challenge an assessment made by German vaccine assessment bodies and European Union regulators that BioNTech has shown a positive risk-benefit profile….