{"package_id":"USCOURTS-cofc-1_23-vv-01696","decision_granule_id":"USCOURTS-cofc-1_23-vv-01696-0","petitioner_identifier":"Brian O'Sullivan","is_minor":null,"age_at_vaccination":null,"age_unit_raw":"years (no age in source - verified)","vaccine_type":"influenza","vaccination_date":"2020-10-16","condition_raw":"Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS)","condition_category":"GBS","autism_spectrum_adjacent":0,"outcome":"entitlement_granted_pending_damages","award_amount_usd":null,"decision_date":"2025-03-12","extraction_version":"gemini-v2","extracted_at":"2026-04-30T01:53:11.468006+00:00","number_of_concurrent_vaccines":1,"dose_number":null,"time_to_onset_days":null,"theory_of_causation":"Influenza vaccine on October 16, 2020 causing Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). ENTITLEMENT GRANTED; damages pending in staged public record. Respondent conceded flu/GBS Table and QAI criteria and all legal prerequisites. Public ruling provides no onset day, neurologic testing, treatment, rehabilitation, experts, literature, or mechanism beyond Table GBS. Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran, entitlement decision March 12, 2025. Petition filed October 2, 2023. Attorney: Leah VaSahnja Durant.","is_death":0,"date_of_death":null,"petition_filed_date":"2023-10-02","case_summary":"Brian O'Sullivan filed his petition on October 2, 2023, alleging that an influenza vaccination administered on October 16, 2020 caused Guillain-Barre syndrome. He alleged that the residual effects of the injury lasted more than six months. O'Sullivan was represented by Leah VaSahnja Durant.\n\nRespondent conceded entitlement in a Rule 4(c) report filed on March 11, 2025. The report stated that O'Sullivan satisfied the Vaccine Injury Table and Qualifications and Aids to Interpretation for a flu/GBS Table injury, and that he satisfied all legal prerequisites for compensation under the Vaccine Act.\n\nThe public entitlement ruling does not describe O'Sullivan's first neurologic symptom, exact onset day, weakness pattern, reflex findings, hospitalization, cerebrospinal fluid testing, EMG or nerve conduction results, IVIG or plasma exchange treatment, rehabilitation, or remaining limitations. It also does not provide expert analysis or a detailed biological mechanism. The publicly available story is therefore limited to the conceded Table finding that his GBS followed flu vaccination within the Program's compensable framework.\n\nChief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran found O'Sullivan entitled to compensation on March 12, 2025. Damages had not yet been awarded in the staged public text.","is_minor_inferred":0,"is_pediatric_broad":0,"special_master":"Brian H. Corcoran","petitioner_identifier_original":null,"caption_petitioner_name":null,"petitioner_attorney_name":"Leah VaSahnja Durant","petitioner_attorney_firm":"Law Offices of Leah V. Durant, PLLC","petitioner_attorney_location":"Washington, DC","adjudicator_name":null,"caption_people_backfilled_at":null,"attorney_canonical_keys":"|leah-durant|","firm_canonical_key":"law-offices-of-leah-v-durant","package_title":"O'SULLIVAN v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","canonical_url":"https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_23-vv-01696","plain_text_url":"https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_23-vv-01696.txt","json_url":"https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_23-vv-01696.json","source_documents":[{"granule_id":"USCOURTS-cofc-1_23-vv-01696-0","title":"O'SULLIVAN v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","docket_text":"PUBLIC ORDER/RULING (Originally filed: 03/12/2025) regarding 25 Ruling on Entitlement Signed by Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran. (ppa) Service on parties made.","date_issued":"2025-04-14","pdf_url":"https://api.govinfo.gov/packages/USCOURTS-cofc-1_23-vv-01696/granules/USCOURTS-cofc-1_23-vv-01696-0/pdf","pdf_bytes":274619,"triage_decision":"keep","triage_reason":"docketText matches keep keyword 'ruling on entitlement'","download_status":"ok","registry_pdf_url":"https://vicp-registry.org/pdf/USCOURTS-cofc-1_23-vv-01696/USCOURTS-cofc-1_23-vv-01696-0"},{"granule_id":"USCOURTS-cofc-1_23-vv-01696-cl-extra-10844654","title":"O&039;sullivan v. Secretary of Health and Human Services","docket_text":"Supplementary opinion from CourtListener cluster 10378066","date_issued":"2025-04-14","pdf_url":null,"pdf_bytes":null,"triage_decision":"keep","triage_reason":"CL supplement: O&039;sullivan v. Secretary of Health and Human Services","download_status":"ok","registry_pdf_url":"https://vicp-registry.org/pdf/USCOURTS-cofc-1_23-vv-01696/USCOURTS-cofc-1_23-vv-01696-cl-extra-10844654"}]}