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Canonical URL: https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_23-vv-01295
Package ID: USCOURTS-cofc-1_23-vv-01295
Petitioner: Saul Antonio Torres-Barrera
Filed: 2023-08-10
Decided: 2025-08-04
Vaccine: influenza
Vaccination date: 2021-12-08
Condition: brachial neuritis, and a shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA)
Outcome: compensated
Award amount USD: 24500

AI-assisted case summary:
Saul Antonio Torres-Barrera received an influenza vaccine on December 8, 2021. He filed a petition for compensation under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program on August 10, 2023, alleging that he sustained brachial neuritis and a shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) within the time period set forth in the Vaccine Injury Table. He further alleged that he experienced residual effects of this condition for more than six months. The respondent denied that Petitioner sustained brachial neuritis or a Table SIRVA injury, denied that the vaccine caused his alleged shoulder injuries or any other injury, and denied that his current condition is a sequela of a vaccine-related injury. Nevertheless, on June 23, 2025, the parties filed a joint stipulation agreeing that compensation should be awarded. Chief Special Master Corcoran found the stipulation reasonable and adopted it as his decision awarding damages. Saul Antonio Torres-Barrera was awarded a lump sum of $17,000.00 for all damages and an additional $7,500.00 to reimburse a Medicaid lien for services rendered by the State of California, for a total award of $24,500.00.

Theory of causation field:
Table

Public staged source text:

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DOCUMENT 1: USCOURTS-cofc-1_23-vv-01295-0
Date issued/filed: 2025-08-04
Pages: 9
Docket text: PUBLIC DECISION (Originally filed: 06/23/2025) regarding 44 DECISION Stipulation/Proffer, Signed by Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran. (ppa) Service on parties made. (Main Document 49 replaced for modification on 9/8/2025) (tjk).
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In the United States Court of Federal Claims
OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS
No. 23-1295V
SAUL ANTONIO TORRES-BARRERA, Chief Special Master Corcoran
Petitioner,
v. Filed: June 23, 2025
SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND Revised: August 29, 2025
HUMAN SERVICES,
Respondent.
Jessica Ann Wallace, Siri & Glimstad, LLP, Aventura, FL, for Petitioner.
Julianna Rose Kober, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
DECISION ON JOINT STIPULATION1
On August 10, 2023, Saul Antonio Torres-Barrera filed a petition for compensation
under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, 42 U.S.C. §300aa-10, et seq.2
(the “Vaccine Act”). On December 8, 2021, Petitioner received an influenza (“flu”) vaccine,
which vaccine is listed in the Vaccine Injury Table (the “Table”), 42 C.F.R. § 100.3(a).
Petitioner alleges that he sustained brachial neuritis, and a shoulder injury related to
vaccine administration (“SIRVA”) within the time period set forth in the Table. He further
alleges that he experienced the residual effects of this condition for more than six months.
1 Because this Decision 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 Decision 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).

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Respondent denies that Petitioner sustained brachial neuritis or a Table SIRVA
injury; denies that the vaccine caused Petitioner’s alleged shoulder injuries, or any other
injury; and denies that his current condition is a sequela of a vaccine-related injury.
Nevertheless, on June 23, 2025, the parties filed the attached joint stipulation,3
stating that a decision should be entered awarding compensation. I find the stipulation
reasonable and adopt it as my decision awarding damages, on the terms set forth therein.
Pursuant to the terms stated in the attached Stipulation, I award the following
compensation:
A. A lump sum of $17,000.00 to be paid through an ACH deposit to Petitioner’s
counsel’s IOLTA account for prompt disbursement to Petitioner; and
B. A lump sum of $7,500.00, representing reimbursement of a Medicaid lien for
services rendered to Petitioner by the State of California, in the form of a
check payable jointly to Petitioner and Department of Health Care Services
(“DHCS”):
DHCS account number: C98752423G-001T
Department of Health Care Services,
Personal Injury Program, MS 4720
P.O. Box 997421
Sacramento, CA 95899-7421
Petitioner agrees to endorse this check to DHCS.4
Stipulation at ¶ 8. These amounts represent compensation for all items of damages that
would be available under Section 15(a). Id.
I approve the requested amount for Petitioner’s compensation. In the absence of
a motion for review filed pursuant to RCFC Appendix B, the Clerk of Court is directed to
enter judgment in accordance with this decision.5
3 In attaching the parties’ joint stipulation, I have omitted the last page – a DropBox Sign form that includes
personal information regarding Petitioner.
4 The parties’ joint stipulation contained a scrivener’s error, in referring to Amerigroup rather than DHCS. I
subsequently granted the parties’ joint motion to correct this Decision and the corresponding Judgment.
See Joint Motion filed Aug. 20, 2025 (ECF No. 53); Order entered Aug. 26, 2025 (ECF No. 54).
5 Pursuant to Vaccine Rule 11(a), entry of judgment can be expedited by the parties’ joint filing of notice
renouncing the right to seek review.
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IT IS SO ORDERED.
s/Brian H. Corcoran
Brian H. Corcoran
Chief Special Master
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