Amy Martineau Jereb v. HHS - Influenza, shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) (2025)

On March 24, 2022, Amy Bishop, later captioned as Amy Martineau Jereb, filed a petition alleging that an influenza vaccine administered on October 13, 2020 caused a Table shoulder injury related to vaccine administration. Entitlement and damages were contested.

Respondent challenged only whether Ms. Jereb proved shoulder-pain onset within forty-eight hours of vaccination; he did not contest the remaining SIRVA elements.

Ms. Jereb sought $65,000.00 for pain and suffering and $693.72 for a Medicaid lien.

Respondent argued for $20,000.00 for pain and suffering and $681.19 for the Medicaid lien if entitlement was found. Chief Special Master Brian H.

Corcoran resolved the dispute at a December 19, 2025 expedited Motions Day hearing and incorporated the oral ruling into the written decision. He found onset within forty-eight hours and all other Table SIRVA requirements met.

He awarded $37,500.00 for actual pain and suffering and $681.19 for a Virginia Medicaid lien payable to the Office of the Attorney General, Financial Recovery Section, for a total of $38,181.19. Ms.

Jereb was represented by Jonathan Joseph Svitak of Shannon Law Group, P.C.