Sandra Yadira Camacho Cazarez v. HHS - shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) and/or rheumatoid arthritis (2025)
Case summary [AI summaries can sometimes make mistakes]
On October 3, 2023, Sandra Yadira Camacho Cazarez filed a Vaccine Act petition alleging a Table shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) and, in the alternative, an off-Table rheumatoid arthritis injury. The public dismissal decision and later fee decision do not identify the vaccine, vaccination date, onset interval, treatment history, or expert evidence.
Respondent reviewed the claim and filed a Rule 4(c) report on August 12, 2025, recommending that entitlement be denied. After that report, Ms.
Camacho Cazarez moved for a decision dismissing the petition. She stated that further investigation of the facts and science showed she could not prove entitlement and that continuing would waste the resources of the court, respondent, and the Vaccine Program.
Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran dismissed the petition with prejudice on August 19, 2025.
A later March 6, 2026 decision awarded attorney's fees and costs because the unsuccessful claim still had reasonable basis; that later award was not vaccine-injury compensation.
Theory of causation
Unspecified vaccine/date allegedly causing Table SIRVA and/or off-Table rheumatoid arthritis; DISMISSED with prejudice. Respondent recommended denial in a Rule 4(c) report. Petitioner then moved to dismiss, stating she could not prove entitlement after investigating the facts and science. Public record does not give vaccine identity, onset, treatment chronology, expert theory, or medical mechanism. No injury compensation; later attorney-fee award only. Chief SM Brian H. Corcoran, petition filed October 3, 2023; merits dismissal filed August 19, 2025. Attorney: John Beaulieu, Siri & Glimstad LLP, Louisville KY.