Mary Trepanier v. HHS - Influenza, transverse myelitis (2025)
Case summary [AI summaries can sometimes make mistakes]
On September 2, 2022, Mary Trepanier filed a petition alleging that she developed transverse myelitis after receiving an influenza vaccine on October 9, 2020. The public dismissal decision states that she presented about three weeks later with numbness, but it does not set out the diagnostic testing, treatment course, steroid response, or residual medical history in detail.
Respondent filed a Rule 4(c) report recommending denial of entitlement. After reviewing the record, Ms.
Trepanier indicated that she could not obtain an expert report to support vaccine causation and that she no longer wished to pursue the claim. On March 31, 2025, Chief Special Master Brian H.
Corcoran granted her motion for a decision dismissing the petition. The dismissal was with prejudice for insufficient proof.
A later attorneys' fees decision did not represent vaccine-injury compensation.
Theory of causation
Influenza vaccine October 9, 2020 allegedly causing transverse myelitis; adult, exact age not stated; public text says numbness presentation about three weeks later. DISMISSED with prejudice on petitioner's motion after respondent recommended denial and petitioner could not obtain expert support. No injury-compensation award. Chief SM Brian H. Corcoran; petition September 2, 2022; dismissal March 31, 2025.
Source PDFs
USCOURTS-cofc-1_22-vv-01210