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Canonical URL: https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_22-vv-00858
Package ID: USCOURTS-cofc-1_22-vv-00858
Petitioner: Sharon Chung
Filed: 2022-08-05
Decided: 2024-05-16
Vaccine: influenza
Vaccination date: 2019-09-30
Condition: neuropathy to her left arm
Outcome: dismissed
Award amount USD: 

AI-assisted case summary:
Sharon Chung filed a petition on August 5, 2022, alleging that she suffered injuries, including neuropathy to her left arm, as a result of a flu vaccine she received on September 30, 2019. She submitted medical records with her petition. Respondent filed a Rule 4(c) report on January 4, 2024, arguing the case was not appropriate for compensation. On May 16, 2024, the parties filed a Joint Stipulation of Dismissal. Accordingly, the case was dismissed without prejudice pursuant to Vaccine Rule 21(a), and judgment was not to be entered.

Theory of causation field:
unclear

Public staged source text:

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DOCUMENT 1: USCOURTS-cofc-1_22-vv-00858-0
Date issued/filed: 2024-11-14
Pages: 2
Docket text: PUBLIC ORDER/RULING (Originally filed: 5/16/2024) regarding 32 Order Concluding Proceedings Signed by Special Master Thomas L. Gowen. (ms) Service on parties made.
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Case 1:22-vv-00858-UNJ Document 33 Filed 11/14/24 Page 1 of 2
In the United States Court of Federal Claims
OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS
Filed: May 16, 2024
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SHARON CHUNG, *
* No. 22-858V
Petitioner, *
v. * Special Master Gowen
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SECRETARY OF HEALTH *
AND HUMAN SERVICES, *
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Respondent. *
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David Gregory Rogers, Rogers, Hofrichter & Karrh, LLC, Fayetteville, GA, for petitioner.
Ryan Miller, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for respondent.
ORDER CONCLUDING PROCEEDINGS1
On August 5, 2022, Sharon Chung (“petitioner”) filed a Petition in the National Vaccine
Injury Compensation Program. Petition (ECF No. 1).2 Petitioner alleged that she suffered
injuries “including neuropathy to her left arm” as a result of the flu vaccine she received on
September 30, 2019. Id. at Preamble. Petitioner filed medical records accompanying her petition.
On January 4, 2024, respondent filed the Rule 4(c) report arguing that the case was not
appropriate for compensation. Resp’t Report (ECF No. 58). On May 16, 2024, the parties filed a
Joint Stipulation of Dismissal stating that “The parties hereby stipulate pursuant to Vaccine Rule
21(a) that this action shall be dismissed.” Joint Stipulation of Dismissal (ECF No. 31).
Accordingly, pursuant to Vaccine Rule 21(a), the above-captioned case is dismissed
without prejudice. The Clerk of Court is hereby instructed that judgment shall not enter in the
instant case pursuant to Vaccine Rule 21(a).
1 Pursuant to the E-Government Act of 2002, see 44 U.S.C. § 3501 note (2012), because this opinion contains a
reasoned explanation for the action in this case, I intend to post it on the website of the United States Court of
Federal Claims. The Court’s website is at http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/aggregator/sources/7. Before the opinion
is posted on the Court’s website, each party has 14 days to file a motion requesting redaction “of any information
furnished by that party: (1) that is a trade secret or commercial or financial in substance and is privileged or
confidential; or (2) that includes medical files or similar files, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly
unwarranted invasion of privacy.” Vaccine Rule 18(b). An objecting party must provide the Court with a proposed
redacted version of the opinion. Id. If neither party files a motion for redaction within 14 days, the opinion will
be posted on the Court’s website without any changes. Id.
2 The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program is set forth in Part 2 of the National Childhood Vaccine
Injury Act of 1986, Pub. L. No. 99-660, 100 Stat. 3755, codified as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-10 to 34 (2012)
(hereinafter “Vaccine Act” or “the Act”). Hereinafter, individual section references will be to 42 U.S.C. § 300aa of
the Act.

Case 1:22-vv-00858-UNJ Document 33 Filed 11/14/24 Page 2 of 2
IT IS SO ORDERED.
s/ Thomas L. Gowen
Thomas L. Gowen
Special Master
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