L.D. v. HHS - MMR, death following MMR vaccine (2014)

On June 18, 2013, Dalan and Elizabeth Dahl, as the natural parents of their deceased minor daughter L.D., filed a petition under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. They alleged that L.D. received a measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine on June 6, 2011, and subsequently developed symptoms leading to her death on June 18, 2011.

Special Master Nora Beth Dorsey presided over the case. On February 12, 2014, a decision was entered awarding compensation to the petitioners based on the respondent's proffer, indicating the government conceded entitlement without a contested hearing.

On June 3, 2014, the parties filed a stipulation agreeing to an award of attorneys' fees and costs in the amount of $12,889.00. Petitioners' counsel, Leonard John Mark of Tiffany & Bosco, P.A., represented that the petitioners had personally incurred no reimbursable costs.

Special Master Dorsey granted the request for attorneys' fees and costs, ordering that a check for $12,889.00 be issued jointly payable to the petitioners and their counsel. The decision does not describe the specific symptoms L.D. developed, the medical tests performed, or the mechanism of causation.