Christina Jelic v. HHS - Influenza, left shoulder injury (2017)

Christina Jelic filed a petition for compensation under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program on September 14, 2016, alleging a left shoulder injury resulting from an influenza vaccine received on October 28, 2013. The respondent, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, filed a Rule 4(c) report conceding that petitioner's injury was consistent with a shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) and that it was caused-in-fact by the flu vaccine.

The respondent also agreed that no other causes for the SIRVA were identified and that the statutory six-month sequela requirement had been satisfied. Based on the respondent's concession and the evidence of record, Chief Special Master Nora Beth Dorsey issued a ruling on entitlement on October 30, 2017, finding petitioner entitled to compensation.

Subsequently, on October 30, 2017, the respondent filed a combined Rule 4 report and proffer on the award of compensation, indicating that petitioner should be awarded $111,713.14 and that petitioner agreed with this proffered award. Chief Special Master Dorsey issued a decision awarding damages on October 30, 2017, awarding petitioner a lump sum payment of $111,713.14, payable to Christina Jelic, representing compensation for all available damages.

Petitioner's counsel was Ronald Craig Homer of Conway, Homer, P.C., and respondent's counsel was Robert Paul Coleman, III, of the U.S. Department of Justice.

The public decision does not describe the onset, specific symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatments, or the mechanism of injury.