Lynn Oxenberg v. HHS - Pneumococcal, shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) (2024)

Lynn Oxenberg filed a petition for compensation under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program on January 12, 2021, alleging she suffered a shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) as a result of a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine administered to her left deltoid on October 11, 2019. She also received an influenza vaccine in her right deltoid on the same day and alleged her symptoms lasted for more than six months.

Respondent denied that petitioner sustained SIRVA or that the vaccines caused or significantly aggravated her alleged injury. Nevertheless, on December 7, 2023, the parties filed a joint stipulation agreeing to settle the case.

Chief Special Master Corcoran adopted the stipulation as her decision, awarding Lynn Oxenberg a lump sum of $40,000.00 as compensation for all items of damages. The pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is contained in the Vaccine Injury Table, and the case proceeded as a Table claim.