Sophie Poore v. HHS - Influenza, shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) (2025)

On January 8, 2021, Sophie Poore filed a petition alleging that an influenza vaccination administered on October 10, 2020 caused a shoulder injury related to vaccine administration, either as a Table SIRVA or as an off-Table causation-in-fact injury. The case did not proceed as a straightforward concession.

In an April 23, 2025 fact ruling, Special Master Daniel T. Horner found that Ms.

Poore had met the six-month severity requirement, but dismissed the Table SIRVA claim. The public ruling stated that the remaining path would require causation-in-fact proof, including potential expert support.

The later stipulation does not provide additional clinical detail, but it records respondent's continued denial that Ms. Poore sustained a Table SIRVA or that the vaccine caused her alleged injury or current condition.

Despite those denials, the parties settled. On August 28, 2025, Special Master Horner adopted the stipulation and awarded Ms.

Poore $20,000 for all damages available under the Vaccine Act, payable through counsel's IOLTA account. The public record names Glen Howard Sturtevant, Jr. and later Kirk Tripp Otto of Rawls Law Group as counsel for petitioner.