Ashlynn Brill v. HHS - HPV, syncope, seizures, and psuedoseizures (2025)

Ashlynn Brill received a Gardasil-9 HPV vaccine on February 28, 2018. She filed a petition for compensation on February 14, 2020, alleging the vaccine caused syncope, seizures, and pseudoseizures by May 8, 2018.

The Secretary contested entitlement, arguing that the petitioner had not provided preponderant evidence satisfying any of the Althen prongs and had not submitted an expert report. The petitioner did submit expert reports from Dr.

Miglis and Dr. Axelrod, and the respondent submitted reports from Dr.

MacGinnitie and Dr. Gibbons.

Despite the extensive expert reports filed, the petitioner moved for a decision dismissing their petition, citing insufficient proof under the Althen standard. The court granted the motion, finding that the petitioner failed to propose a medical theory causally connecting the vaccination and the injury, demonstrate a logical sequence of cause and effect, or show a proximate temporal relationship.

The case was dismissed with prejudice.