Amy Thompson v. HHS - Influenza, transverse myelitis (2025)

On March 22, 2019, Amy Thompson filed a petition under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program alleging that she developed transverse myelitis as a result of an influenza vaccine received on October 4, 2016. The case caption was later amended to reflect Julie McNamara, administrator of Ms.

Thompson's estate, as the petitioner after Ms. Thompson passed away in 2023.

The respondent denied that the immunization caused the injury. Despite the denial, the parties reached a settlement.

The Special Master adopted the joint stipulation, awarding compensation. The settlement includes a lump sum of $108,000.00 to be paid to petitioner's counsel for disbursement to the estate and an additional $14,462.78 to satisfy a State of Illinois Medicaid lien.

This total award of $122,462.78 represents compensation for all damages available under the program. The decision directs the clerk of the court to enter judgment in accordance with this settlement.

The public decision does not describe the onset, specific symptoms, medical tests, treatments, or the mechanism of injury. The names of petitioner's counsel were Ronald C.

Homer, Esq., and respondent's counsel was Christopher Pinto, Esq. The Special Master was Mindy Michaels Roth.