VICP Registry Case Source Bundle
Canonical URL: https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_22-vv-01650
Package ID: USCOURTS-cofc-1_22-vv-01650
Petitioner: Israel Collins
Filed: 2022-11-07
Decided: 2025-12-23
Vaccine: influenza
Vaccination date: 2019-11-14
Condition: Guillain-Barre syndrome
Outcome: entitlement_granted_pending_damages
Award amount USD: 

AI-assisted case summary:
On November 7, 2022, Israel Collins filed a petition alleging that an influenza vaccine administered on November 14, 2019 caused Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Respondent conceded entitlement in a Rule 4(c) report, agreeing that Mr. Collins satisfied the Vaccine Injury Table criteria for GBS following influenza vaccination. The public ruling is brief and does not describe first neurologic symptoms, diagnostic testing, hospitalization, IVIG or plasma treatment, rehabilitation, or residual limitations.

Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran found entitlement on December 23, 2025. Damages remained to be determined.

Theory of causation field:
Influenza vaccine November 14, 2019 causing Table GBS; adult, exact age not stated. ENTITLEMENT CONCEDED; damages pending. Public ruling lacks neurologic chronology. Chief SM Brian H. Corcoran; petition November 7, 2022; decision December 23, 2025.

Public staged source text:

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DOCUMENT 1: USCOURTS-cofc-1_22-vv-01650-0
Date issued/filed: 2026-01-22
Pages: 2
Docket text: PUBLIC ORDER/RULING (Originally filed: 12/23/2025) regarding 46 Ruling on Entitlement ( Signed by Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran. )(mpj) Service on parties made.
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Case 1:22-vv-01650-UNJ Document 49 Filed 01/22/26 Page 1 of 2
In the United States Court of Federal Claims
OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS
No. 22-1650V
ISRAEL COLLINS, Chief Special Master Corcoran
Petitioner, Filed: December 23, 2025
v.
SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES,
Respondent.
Verne E. Paradie, Jr., Paradie, Rabasco & Seasonwein, Lewiston, ME, for Petitioner.
Eleanor Hanson, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
RULING ON ENTITLEMENT1
On November 7, 2022, Israel Collins (“Petitioner”) 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 he suffered from Guillain-Barré syndrome
(“GBS”) as a result of receiving an influenza (“flu”) vaccination on November 14, 2019.
Pet., ECF No. 1. Petitioner further alleges that he suffered the residual effects of his injury
for more than six months. Id. The case was assigned to the Special Processing Unit of
the Office of Special Masters.
On December 10, 2025, Respondent filed his Amended Rule 4(c) report in which
he states that he does not contest that based on the current record Petitioner is entitled
to compensation in this case. Am. Respondent’s Rule 4(c) Report at 2, ECF No. 45.
1 Because this Ruling contains a reasoned explanation for the action taken in this case, it must be made
publicly accessible and will be posted on the United States Court of Federal Claims' website, and/or
at https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/uscourts/national/cofc, in accordance with the E-Government Act
of 2002. 44 U.S.C. § 3501 note (2018) (Federal Management and Promotion of Electronic Government
Services). This means the Ruling will be available to anyone with access to the internet. 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 (2018).

Case 1:22-vv-01650-UNJ Document 49 Filed 01/22/26 Page 2 of 2
Specifically, Respondent stated that “[P]etitioner has satisfied the criteria set forth in the
Vaccine Injury Table [] and the Qualifications and Aids to Interpretation [], which afford
[P]etitioner a presumption of causation if the onset of GBS occurs between three and
forty-two days after a seasonal flu vaccination and there is no apparent alternative cause.”
Id. at 3 (citing 42 C.F.R. §§ 100.3 (a)(XIV)(D), (c)(15)). Respondent agreed that Petitioner
“has satisfied all legal prerequisites for compensation under the Act.” See id.
In view of Respondent’s position and the evidence of record, I find that
Petitioner is entitled to compensation.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
s/Brian H. Corcoran
Brian H. Corcoran
Chief Special Master
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