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U.S. Supreme Court curbs suits against vaccine-makers

The U.S. Supreme Court reinforced the shield that protects the pharmaceutical industry from lawsuits over vaccines, ruling against two parents who blame Pfizer Inc.’s Wyeth unit for their daughter’s seizure disorder. The justices, voting 6-2, said a 1986 federal law preempts claims that a drugmaker should have sold a safer formulation of a vaccine. The law, ...

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