Ivy Lopez v. HHS - Influenza, shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) (2019)

Petitioner Ivy Lopez filed a petition for compensation under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program on February 15, 2018, alleging she suffered a shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) after receiving an influenza vaccine on November 6, 2013. The respondent denied that petitioner sustained a SIRVA Table injury or that the vaccine caused her alleged injury and its residual effects.

Despite these denials, the parties filed a joint stipulation agreeing to a settlement. Chief Special Master Nora Beth Dorsey reviewed the stipulation and adopted it as the decision of the Court.

The decision awarded Ivy Lopez $55,000.00 in compensation, payable as a lump sum check to the petitioner, to cover all damages available under the program. The decision was issued on September 27, 2019.

Petitioner was represented by Bruce William Slane of the Law Office of Bruce W. Slane, P.C., and respondent was represented by Adriana Ruth Teitel of the U.S.

Department of Justice. The public decision does not describe the specific onset, symptoms, medical tests, or treatments related to Ms.

Lopez's alleged injury, nor does it name any medical experts.