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Canonical URL: https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_19-vv-01693
Package ID: USCOURTS-cofc-1_19-vv-01693
Petitioner: Raven Tubbs
Filed: 2019-10-31
Decided: 2025-12-10
Vaccine: influenza
Vaccination date: 2016-10-20
Condition: Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS)
Outcome: compensated
Award amount USD: 350000

AI-assisted case summary:
On October 31, 2019, Raven Tubbs filed a petition alleging that an influenza vaccine administered on October 20, 2016 caused Guillain-Barre syndrome. The public stipulation identifies her as an adult petitioner but does not state her exact age.

Respondent denied that Ms. Tubbs had established onset within the Vaccine Injury Table interval, denied vaccine causation, and denied that her current condition was a vaccine-related sequela. The public stipulation does not describe her first symptoms, diagnostic studies, hospitalization, treatment, rehabilitation, or long-term residual problems.

The parties resolved the case by joint stipulation. On December 10, 2025, Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran found the stipulation reasonable and awarded Ms. Tubbs a lump sum of $350,000.00 for all damages available under the Vaccine Act.

Theory of causation field:
Adult petitioner; influenza vaccine October 20, 2016; alleged GBS. COMPENSATED by stipulation. Respondent denied Table onset, causation, and sequelae. Public text lacks symptom-onset, testing, treatment, and residual chronology. Award $350,000.00 lump sum. CSM Corcoran December 10, 2025. Petition filed October 31, 2019.

Public staged source text:

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DOCUMENT 1: USCOURTS-cofc-1_19-vv-01693-0
Date issued/filed: 2026-01-06
Pages: 8
Docket text: PUBLIC DECISION (Originally filed: 12/10/2025) regarding 102 DECISION of Special Master - Stipulation. Signed by Special Master Jennifer A. Shah. (am) Service on parties made.
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In the United States Court of Federal Claims
OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS
No. 19-1693V
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RAVEN TUBBS,
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Petitioner, * UNPUBLISHED
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SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND * Filed: December 10, 2025
HUMAN SERVICES, *
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Respondent. *
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John Robert Howie , Jr., Howie Law, P.C., Dallas, TX, for Petitioner.
Lauren Kells, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
DECISION ON JOINT STIPULATION1
On October 31, 2019, Raven Tubbs (“Petitioner”) filed a petition seeking compensation
under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (“the Vaccine Program”).2 ECF No. 1
(“Pet.”). Petitioner alleges she suffered from Guillain-Barré syndrome (“GBS”) as a result of the
influenza (“flu”) vaccination she received on October 20, 2016, as defined by the Vaccine Injury
Table (“Table”) or, in the alternative, that the vaccine was the cause in fact of her injuries. See
Stipulation ¶¶ 2, 4, dated December 10, 2025 (ECF No. 101); see also Pet.
Respondent denies “that [P]etitioner sustained the onset of a GBS Table injury within the
1 Although this Decision has been formally designated “not to be published,” it will nevertheless be posted
on the Court of Federal Claims’ website in accordance with the E-Government Act of 2002, 44 U.S.C. §
3501 (2012). This means the Decision will be available to anyone with access to the internet. As
provided by 42 U.S.C. § 300aa-12(d)(4)(B), however, the parties may object to the Decision’s inclusion of
certain kinds of confidential information. Specifically, under Vaccine Rule 18(b), each party has fourteen
days within which to request redaction “of any information furnished by that party: (1) that is a trade secret
or commercial or financial in substance and is privileged or confidential; or (2) that includes medical files
or similar files, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy.”
Vaccine Rule 18(b). Otherwise, the Decision in its present form will be available. Id.
2 The Vaccine Program comprises Part 2 of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, Pub. L.
No. 99-660, 100 Stat. 3755 (codified as amended at 42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-10–34 (2012)) (hereinafter
“Vaccine Act” or “the Act”). All subsequent references to sections of the Vaccine Act shall be to the
pertinent subparagraph of 42 U.S.C. § 300aa.

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time period set forth in the Table; [and] denies that the vaccine caused or significantly aggravated
[P]etitioner’s alleged injuries or any other injury or [P]etitioner’s current disabilities.” See
Stipulation ¶ 6. Nonetheless, both parties, while maintaining their above-stated positions, agreed
in a stipulation filed December 10, 2025, that the issues before them can be settled and that a
decision should be entered awarding Petitioner compensation.
I have reviewed the file, and based upon that review, I conclude that the parties’ stipulation
is reasonable. I therefore adopt it as my decision in awarding damages on the terms set forth
therein.
The stipulation awards:
a lump sum of $350,000.00 to be paid through an ACH deposit to Petitioner’s counsel’s
IOLTA account for prompt disbursement to Petitioner.
Stipulation ¶ 8. This award represents compensation for all damages that would be available under
42 U.S.C. § 300aa-15(a). Id.
I approve a Vaccine Program award in the requested amount set forth above to be made to
Petitioner. In the absence of a motion for review filed pursuant to RCFC Appendix B, the Clerk
of the Court is directed to enter judgment herewith.3
IT IS SO ORDERED.
s/ Jennifer A. Shah
Jennifer A. Shah
Special Master
3 Pursuant to Vaccine Rule 11(a), the parties may expedite entry of judgment by jointly filing notice
renouncing their right to seek review.
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