Vito Cantu v. HHS - Influenza, shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) (2024)
Case summary [AI summaries can sometimes make mistakes]
On August 27, 2019, Vito Cantu filed a petition alleging that a trivalent influenza vaccination administered on December 31, 2017 caused a shoulder injury related to vaccine administration. Respondent denied that Mr.
Cantu sustained a SIRVA, denied that the vaccine caused his alleged shoulder injury or any other injury, and denied that his current condition was a vaccine sequela. The public stipulation decision does not describe his first symptom, onset interval, imaging, injections, therapy, or functional limitations.
Special Master Thomas L. Gowen adopted the parties' stipulation on October 4, 2024.
Mr. Cantu received $105,000.00 as a lump sum payable to him for all damages available under the Vaccine Act.
The case resolved by compromise, so the public record gives the vaccine, claimed injury, denial, and award, but not the underlying shoulder-treatment story. A later September 23, 2025 decision addressed attorneys' fees and costs only.
Theory of causation
Adult petitioner; trivalent influenza vaccine December 31, 2017; alleged SIRVA. COMPENSATED by stipulation. Respondent denied SIRVA, causation, and sequelae; public merits text lacks clinical chronology. Award $105,000.00 lump sum. SM Gowen October 4, 2024. Petition filed August 27, 2019.