BioNTech vaccine hearing postponed after petition to change judge
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[June 12, 2023]
By Nette Noestlinger
HAMBURG (Reuters) -The first hearing in a German court case against
BioNTech over side effects allegedly caused by its COVID-19 vaccine was
postponed on Monday after the plaintiff's lawyer petitioned for the case
to be heard by different judges.The lawyer Tobias Ulbrich of law firm
Rogert & Ulbrich asked for the case to be heard by a group of judges and
for the currently-assigned single judge to be recused for bias, Ulbrich
and a spokesperson for the regional court in Hamburg told Reuters
separately.
The court in the northern city of Hamburg said a decision on the request
would take a matter of days, without providing a new date for a hearing.
BioNTech could face hundreds of similar cases in the country.
It has said that the Hamburg case, brought by a woman who is seeking
damages for alleged side effects including upper-body pain and fatigue,
was without merit.
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(Reporting by Nette Noestlinger, Writing by Ludwig Burger and
Anastasiia Kozlova, Editing by Rachel More and Barbara Lewis)
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