Melanie Ickes v. HHS - Influenza, shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) (2020)

Melanie Ickes filed a petition for compensation on February 13, 2019, on behalf of herself, alleging a shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) resulting from an influenza vaccination received on October 23, 2017. Ms.

Ickes stated the vaccine was administered in the United States, her condition had residual effects for more than six months, and she had not received prior compensation for this injury. The respondent denied that Ms.

Ickes sustained a SIRVA Table injury, denied that the vaccine caused her alleged shoulder injury or any other injury, and denied that her current condition was a sequelae of a vaccine-related injury. Despite these denials, the parties filed a joint stipulation on September 23, 2020, agreeing that compensation should be awarded.

Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran reviewed the stipulation, found it reasonable, and adopted it as his decision.

He awarded Ms. Ickes a lump sum of $77,000.00, payable by check to the petitioner, as compensation for all items of damages.

The decision was issued on September 23, 2020. Petitioner's counsel was Jimmy A.

Zgheib of Zgheib Sayad, P.C., and respondent's counsel was Jennifer Leigh Reynaud of the U.S. Department of Justice.