Sherran Lynn Wasserman v. HHS - Influenza, shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) (2022)

Sherran Lynn Wasserman filed a petition for compensation under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program on November 17, 2020. She alleged that after receiving an influenza vaccine on November 17, 2017, she suffered a shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA).

Ms. Wasserman claimed that SIRVA is a defined Table injury, that she received the vaccine in the United States, and that she experienced residual effects from the injury for more than six months.

She also stated that neither she nor any other party had filed a civil suit or received compensation for her alleged SIRVA injury. The respondent, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, denied that Petitioner sustained a SIRVA Table injury, denied that the vaccine caused her alleged shoulder injury or any other injury, and denied that her current condition was a sequela of a vaccine-related injury.

Despite these denials, on April 26, 2022, the parties filed a joint stipulation agreeing that compensation should be awarded. Chief Special Master Brian H.

Corcoran reviewed the stipulation, found it reasonable, and adopted it as the decision of the court. Ms.

Wasserman was awarded a lump sum of $25,000.00, payable by check to Petitioner. This amount was stipulated to represent compensation for all items of damages available under Section 15(a) of the Vaccine Act.

Petitioner was represented by John Robert Howie of Howie Law, PC, and Respondent was represented by Mary Eileen Holmes of the U.S. Department of Justice.

The decision was issued on May 3, 2022.