Emily Beck v. HHS - Influenza, left shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) (2025)

On June 5, 2023, Emily Beck filed a petition alleging that an influenza vaccination administered on September 9, 2021 caused a left shoulder injury related to vaccine administration. The case first required a fact ruling because she did not have a complete conventional vaccine administration record.

Ms. Beck attested that she received the flu shot in her left deltoid at the Racine Department of Corrections, where she worked.

Eleven days later, on September 20, 2021, she contacted her primary care provider reporting that her arm was in a lot of pain, that she had received the flu vaccine at work a couple of weeks earlier, and that she had experienced 8/10 arm pain since then. On September 22, she reported swelling and pain with overhead movement and said she believed the shot had been placed too high.

Later records again linked left-shoulder pain to a September 2021 work flu shot, and email communications with her employer and TotalWellness supplied circumstantial vaccination details, including Afluria Quadrivalent by Seqirus and lot number P100355859. Respondent initially argued that Ms.

Beck had not proved vaccination. Chief Special Master Brian H.

Corcoran found on April 21, 2025 that the circumstantial record, though barely sufficient, established that she received the flu vaccine intramuscularly in the left deltoid on September 9, 2021. Respondent then conceded entitlement, agreeing that the injury was consistent with Table SIRVA.

Entitlement was granted on July 24, 2025. On November 6, 2025, Ms.

Beck was awarded $52,500.00 for pain and suffering, payable through counsel's IOLTA account. She was represented by Paul R.

Brazil of Muller Brazil, LLP.