Christopher Jay Hankins v. HHS - Pneumococcal, shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) (2025)

Christopher Jay Hankins filed a petition on October 7, 2020, alleging that he suffered a shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) after receiving a pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccine on September 27, 2019. The respondent filed a Rule 4(c) report arguing against compensation, and the parties exchanged expert reports.

The Special Master held a Rule 5 conference and directed the petitioner to provide an expert report from a neurologist, setting an initial deadline. Following multiple status reports regarding the petitioner's efforts to retain an expert, the Special Master ordered the petitioner to show cause why the case should not be dismissed.

On May 21, 2025, the parties filed a joint stipulation of dismissal. In accordance with Vaccine Rule 21(a), the case was dismissed without prejudice, and judgment was not to be entered.