Leonard Arrant v. HHS - Tdap, Shoulder Injury Related to Vaccine Administration (SIRVA) (2020)

Leonard Arrant filed a petition for compensation on February 25, 2019, alleging that a Tetanus diphtheria acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccination he received on September 15, 2016, caused him to suffer a Table injury of Shoulder Injury Related to Vaccine Administration (SIRVA), or alternatively, a Table injury of brachial neuritis, or a shoulder injury caused in fact by the vaccination. The petition stated that the vaccine was administered in the United States, that the residual effects of the injury lasted more than six months, and that there had been no prior award or settlement of a civil action for the injury.

Respondent denied that petitioner sustained a SIRVA Table injury or a brachial neuritis Table injury, denied that the vaccine caused petitioner's alleged shoulder injuries or any other injury, and denied that his current condition was a sequelae of a vaccine-related injury. Despite these denials, on September 2, 2020, the parties filed a joint stipulation agreeing that compensation should be awarded.

Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran found the stipulation reasonable and adopted it as the decision of the court.

Pursuant to the stipulation, Leonard Arrant was awarded $47,780.00 as a lump sum payment, payable to Petitioner, representing compensation for all items of damages. Petitioner's counsel was William E.

Cochran, Jr. of Black McLaren Jones Ryland & Griffee, P.C. Respondent's counsel was Colleen Clemons Hartley of the U.S.

Department of Justice. The decision was issued on October 5, 2020.