Molly Converse v. HHS - Influenza, left radial nerve injury and left arm mass (2025)
Case summary [AI summaries can sometimes make mistakes]
On December 12, 2023, Molly Converse filed a petition seeking compensation after an influenza vaccination administered on February 13, 2021. She alleged that the vaccine caused left-arm injuries, specifically a left radial nerve injury and a left arm mass, with residual effects lasting more than six months.
Respondent denied that Ms. Converse had sustained a radial nerve injury or left arm mass, denied that the vaccine caused her alleged left-arm injuries or any other injury, and denied that her current condition was a vaccine-related sequela.
The public decision is a stipulation decision, so it does not provide the first symptom, onset interval, clinical visits, diagnostic testing, treatment, expert opinions, or a detailed mechanism beyond the asserted left-arm vaccine injury. On September 30, 2025, Chief Special Master Brian H.
Corcoran adopted the parties' joint stipulation. Ms.
Converse was awarded a lump sum of $77,500.00, paid through counsel's IOLTA account, representing all damages available under the Vaccine Act. She was represented by Edward M.
Kraus of Kraus Law Group, LLC.
Theory of causation
Influenza vaccine, February 13, 2021, adult inferred from petitioner filing in her own name, alleged left radial nerve injury and left arm mass caused-in-fact by vaccination. COMPENSATED by stipulation. Respondent denied the radial nerve injury, left arm mass, vaccine causation, and sequelae. Public stipulation gives no onset interval, treatment, imaging, expert testimony, or biological mechanism beyond the alleged vaccine-caused left arm injuries. Award: $77,500 lump sum for all Section 15(a) damages, ACH to counsel IOLTA. Chief Special Master Corcoran September 30, 2025. Attorney Edward M. Kraus; respondent Madylan Louise Yarc.
Source PDFs
USCOURTS-cofc-1_23-vv-02104