Brenda Smull v. HHS - Influenza, shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) (2025)
Case summary [AI summaries can sometimes make mistakes]
On September 27, 2023, Brenda Smull filed a petition alleging that an influenza vaccine administered on December 28, 2021 caused a shoulder injury related to vaccine administration. The stipulation noted that she also received a COVID-19 vaccine that same day, which is not a Vaccine Injury Table vaccine.
Respondent denied that Ms. Smull sustained a Table SIRVA, denied that the flu vaccine caused her alleged shoulder injury or any other injury, and denied vaccine-related sequelae.
The public stipulation does not describe her first symptom, treatment visits, imaging, injections, therapy, or residual limitations. The parties settled the case by joint stipulation.
On August 15, 2025, Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran adopted the stipulation and awarded Ms.
Smull $20,000.00 as a lump sum. The settlement also released claims relating to the same-day COVID-19 vaccination in the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program.
Theory of causation
Influenza vaccine December 28, 2021, with same-day COVID-19 vaccine noted as non-Table/CICP countermeasure, allegedly causing SIRVA; adult, exact age not stated. COMPENSATED by stipulation. Respondent denied Table SIRVA, causation, and sequelae; public stipulation lacks clinical chronology. Award $20,000 lump sum. Chief SM Brian H. Corcoran; petition September 27, 2023; decision August 15, 2025.
Source PDFs
USCOURTS-cofc-1_23-vv-01662