Three families -- the Cedillos, the Hazlehursts and the Snyders -- sought compensation from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, but the panel ruled that they had not presented sufficient evidence to prove that the childhood vaccines caused autism in their children.

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MPs on the panel urged him firm to consider what compensation could be offered to service personnel being drafted in.

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This separate inquiry arose following comments made by Lord Griffiths when the independent arbitration panel he chaired ruled the Blades should be owed compensation.

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Natalie Creane was struck on the forehead by the overhead panel in 2008 and her family is appealing against a court ruling over a compensation award.

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But the appeal tribunal said the original panel, in Bury St Edmunds, had followed "an erroneous approach" in cutting the amount of compensation owed and had not "precisely" identified what was confidential about the information passed on or to whom it was confidential.

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