By Nette Noestlinger
HAMBURG, June 12 (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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