A comparative study of civil responsibility of government towards users the Covid 19 vaccine in Iran and US Law .

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 PhD student in the field of private law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Mazandaran University, Mazandaran, Iran

2 university of mazandaran

3 Professor of Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Mazandaran University

10.22059/jcl.2023.355806.634474

Abstract

Corona virus or Covid-19 is a disease which affected most of the countries for many year such as Iran and America and caused lots of difficulties and suffering for governments and people. Now days one of the important matters regarding the civil responsibilities of the government is transmission and spread of Corona virus among people. Due to that the aim of this project is to comparatively analysis the conditions of the civil responsibility of government towards the use of Covid-19 vaccination and methods of compensation in the Iranian and US Law system. Writer of this article tried to refer to the subject by sticking to descriptive-analytic method to explain the adaptation of the civil liability of legal system of Iran and America and find out the differences between them. Results obtained from this research show the government responsibility plan regarding this epidemic disease. It means the action or decision by the authorities can lead the responsibility of the government. Also, in US Law system to compensate the lost and damages caused by this covid-19 vaccination the compensation fund and civil responsibility insurance to compensate this case is established. And other achievements are that the government's exemption from non-judgment damages is exceptional and the main principles of the necessity require compensating unjust loss. The government can only cite it when it is sure that it has legal documentations.

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