Juliet Wolf v. HHS - Influenza, shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) (2022)

Juliet Wolf filed her petition on June 26, 2020, alleging that an influenza vaccination administered on September 27, 2018 caused a shoulder injury related to vaccine administration. The petition alleged a SIRVA injury and stated that Wolf experienced residual effects for more than six months.

She was represented by Maximillian J. Muller of Muller Brazil.

Respondent did not concede the claim. The stipulation states that respondent denied that Wolf sustained a Table SIRVA, denied that the influenza vaccine caused her shoulder injury, denied that the vaccine caused any other injury, and denied that any current condition was vaccine caused.

No entitlement hearing or expert ruling appears in the public staged text; instead, the parties filed a joint stipulation resolving compensation. The public stipulation gives only a limited account of Wolf's medical story.

It identifies the vaccine, date, alleged injury, and six-month sequela requirement, but it does not describe her first shoulder symptom, onset interval, treating physicians, physical examination findings, imaging, injections, physical therapy, surgery, work impact, or daily limitations. Because the publicly available document is a settlement stipulation rather than a detailed damages decision, the record does not explain what clinical facts led the parties to compromise the disputed claim.

Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran reviewed the stipulation and found it reasonable.

On March 31, 2022, he adopted the stipulation as the decision awarding compensation. Wolf received $90,000.00 as a lump sum for all damages available under the Vaccine Act, and judgment was directed in that amount.