Linda Perrico v. HHS - Influenza, left shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) (2025)

On December 15, 2020, Linda Perrico filed a Vaccine Act petition alleging that an influenza vaccination on October 3, 2019 caused a left shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA). She alleged that the residual effects lasted more than six months.

Respondent denied that Ms. Perrico sustained a Table SIRVA injury and denied that the flu vaccine caused her left shoulder injury, any other injury, or her current condition.

The case resolved through a joint stipulation rather than a litigated medical ruling, so the public decision does not describe her onset, treatment history, imaging, injections, therapy, or expert analysis. On April 11, 2025, the parties filed a stipulation agreeing that compensation should be awarded.

Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran found the stipulation reasonable and awarded a lump sum of $80,000.00, payable through counsel's IOLTA account for prompt disbursement to Ms.

Perrico. A later February 27, 2026 decision awarded attorney's fees and costs, but did not change the injury-compensation award.