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Canonical URL: https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_16-vv-00165
Package ID: USCOURTS-cofc-1_16-vv-00165
Petitioner: Anna Johnson
Filed: 2016-04-13
Decided: 2016-05-24
Vaccine: influenza
Vaccination date: 2014-09-17
Condition: shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA)
Outcome: compensated
Award amount USD: 

AI-assisted case summary:
Anna Johnson filed a petition for compensation under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program on April 13, 2016, alleging she suffered a shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) after receiving an influenza vaccination on September 17, 2014. The case was assigned to the Special Processing Unit. Respondent, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, filed a Rule 4(c) report conceding that petitioner is entitled to compensation. Respondent concluded that petitioner's injury was consistent with SIRVA, that the evidence established SIRVA was caused-in-fact by the flu vaccination, and that no other causes were identified. Respondent also agreed that petitioner met all legal prerequisites for compensation. Based on respondent's concession and the evidence, the Chief Special Master found that Anna Johnson is entitled to compensation, with the case proceeding to damages.

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Public staged source text:

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DOCUMENT 1: USCOURTS-cofc-1_16-vv-00165-0
Date issued/filed: 2016-05-24
Pages: 2
Docket text: PUBLIC ORDER/RULING (Originally filed: 04/13/2016) regarding 13 Ruling on Entitlement ( Signed by Chief Special Master Nora Beth Dorsey.)(mpj) Copy to parties.
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Case 1:16-vv-00165-UNJ Document 17 Filed 05/24/16 Page 1 of 2
In the United States Court of Federal Claims
OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS
No. 16-165V
Filed: April 13, 2016
UNPUBLISHED
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ANNA JOHNSON, *
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Petitioner, * Ruling on Entitlement; Concession;
* Influenza;
* Shoulder Injury (“SIRVA”);
SECRETARY OF HEALTH * Special Processing Unit (“SPU”)
AND HUMAN SERVICES, *
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Respondent. *
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William Cochran, Black McLaren Jones Ryland & Griffee, Memphis, TN, for petitioner.
Ryan Pyles, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for respondent.
RULING ON ENTITLEMENT1
Dorsey, Chief Special Master:
On February 3, 2016, petitioner filed a petition for compensation under the
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, 42 U.S.C. §300aa-10, et seq.,2 (the
“Vaccine Act”). Petitioner alleges that she suffered a shoulder injury related to vaccine
administration (“SIRVA”) following receipt of her September 17, 2014 influenza
vaccination. Petition at 1. The case was assigned to the Special Processing Unit of the
Office of Special Masters.
On April 13, 2016, respondent filed her Rule 4(c) report in which she concedes
that petitioner is entitled to compensation in this case. Respondent’s Rule 4(c) Report
at 1. Specifically, respondent “has concluded that petitioner’s alleged injury is
consistent with SIRVA; that a preponderance of evidence establishes that her SIRVA
was caused-in-fact by the flu vaccination she received on September 17, 2014; and that
no other causes for petitioner’s SIRVA were identified.” Id. at 2. Respondent further
1 Because this unpublished ruling contains a reasoned explanation for the action in this case, the
undersigned intends to post it on the United States Court of Federal Claims' website, in accordance with
the E-Government Act of 2002. 44 U.S.C. § 3501 note (2012)(Federal Management and Promotion of
Electronic Government Services). In accordance with Vaccine Rule 18(b), petitioner has 14 days to
identify and move to redact medical or other information, the disclosure of which would constitute an
unwarranted invasion of privacy. If, upon review, the undersigned agrees that the identified material fits
within this definition, the undersigned will redact such material from public access.
2 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, Pub. L. No. 99-660, 100 Stat. 3755. Hereinafter, for
ease of citation, all “§” references to the Vaccine Act will be to the pertinent subparagraph of 42 U.S.C. §
300aa (2012).

Case 1:16-vv-00165-UNJ Document 17 Filed 05/24/16 Page 2 of 2
agrees that petitioner has satisfied all legal prerequisites for compensation under the
Vaccine Act. Id.
In view of respondent’s concession and the evidence before me, the
undersigned finds that petitioner is entitled to compensation.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
s/Nora Beth Dorsey
Nora Beth Dorsey
Chief Special Master
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