Payout Row Over Alleged Vaccine Death Turned Away by High Court

A family’s fight over government compensation for the death of their child allegedly at the hands of routine vaccines won’t be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The high court’s denial to hear the case marks a missed opportunity for the justices to determine the requirements that non-U.S. residents must meet to collect payouts for alleged vaccine injuries under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act.

Petitioners Robert David Dupuch-Carron and Joanna Carron, parents of an infant who died after receiving eight U.S.-manufactured vaccines—including diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis (DTaP) and Prevnar, to prevent pneumococcal infection—in the Bahamas, asked the justices ...