More lawsuits over jab side effects – Germany

 BioNTech faces first German lawsuit over alleged COVID vaccine side effects

By Ludwig Burger and Patricia Weiss

Photo du logo de BioNTech prise à Marburg, en Allemagne. /Photo prise le 2 février 2023 à Marburg, Allemagne/REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer

HAMBURG, June 11 (Reuters) – BioNTech (22UAy.DE) will go to court on Monday to defend itself against a lawsuit from a German woman who is seeking damages for alleged side effects of its COVID-19 vaccine, the first of potentially hundreds of cases in the country.

The woman, exercising her right under German privacy law for her name not to be made public, is suing the German vaccine maker for at least 150,000 euro ($161,500) in damages for bodily harm as well as compensation for unspecified material damage, according to the regional court in Hamburg which is hearing the case and law firm Rogert & Ulbrich, which is representing her.