VICP Registry Case Source Bundle
Canonical URL: https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_22-vv-00855
Package ID: USCOURTS-cofc-1_22-vv-00855
Petitioner: Nancy Hughes
Filed: 2022-08-04
Decided: 2025-10-23
Vaccine: influenza
Vaccination date: 2020-09-09
Condition: left shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA)
Outcome: entitlement_granted_pending_damages
Award amount USD: 

AI-assisted case summary:
On August 4, 2022, Nancy Hughes filed a petition alleging that an influenza vaccine administered on September 9, 2020 caused a left shoulder injury related to vaccine administration. The public ruling identifies her as an adult petitioner but does not give her exact age.

The case proceeded in the Special Processing Unit. Chief Special Master Corcoran found Ms. Hughes entitled to compensation on October 23, 2025. The public ruling is very short and does not provide the first symptom, treatment history, imaging, injections, therapy, respondent's detailed position, or the basis for damages.

Because entitlement has been granted, the case proceeds to a damages determination. No compensation amount has yet been awarded in the public decision.

Theory of causation field:
Adult petitioner; influenza vaccine September 9, 2020; left SIRVA. ENTITLEMENT GRANTED, DAMAGES PENDING. Public SPU ruling states entitlement but does not provide clinical chronology or damages facts. CSM Corcoran October 23, 2025. Petition filed August 4, 2022.

Public staged source text:

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DOCUMENT 1: USCOURTS-cofc-1_22-vv-00855-0
Date issued/filed: 2025-12-02
Pages: 7
Docket text: PUBLIC ORDER/RULING (Originally filed: 10/23/2025) regarding 46 Ruling on Entitlement Signed by Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran. (ppa) Service on parties made.
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OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS
No. 22-855V
NANCY HUGHES, Chief Special Master Corcoran
Petitioner, Filed: October 23, 2025
V.
SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES,
Respondent.
Catherine Wallace Costigan, Met/aw, Washington, DC, for Petitioner.
Michael Bliley, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
RULING ON ENTITLEMENT1
On August 4, 2022, Nancy Hughes filed a petition for compensation under the
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, 42 U.S.C. §300aa-10, et seq. 2 (the
"Vaccine Act"). Petitioner alleges that she suffered a left shoulder injury related to vaccine
administration ("SIRVA") caused by an influenza ("flu") vaccine administered on
September 9, 2020. Petition at 1. The case was assigned to the Special Processing Unit
of the Office of Special Masters. For the reasons set forth below, I find that Petitioner is
entitled to compensation.
1
In accordance with Vaccine Rule 18(b), Petitioner has 14 days to identify and move to redact medical or
other information, the disclosure of which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of privacy. If, upon
review, I agree that the identified material fits within this definition, I will redact such material from public
access.
2 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, Pub. L. No. 99-660, 100 Stat. 3755. Hereinafter, for ease
of citation, all section references to the Vaccine Act will be to the pertinent subparagraph of 42 U.S.C. §
300aa (2012).

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