Tina Rodrigues v. HHS - Influenza, shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) (2025)

Tina Rodrigues filed a petition for compensation under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program on March 7, 2024, alleging injury from an influenza vaccine received on January 7, 2023. She claimed to have sustained a shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA), which is listed on the Vaccine Injury Table, and that the residual effects lasted for more than six months.

The respondent, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, denied that Petitioner sustained a SIRVA Table injury or that the vaccine caused her alleged shoulder injury. Despite the denial, the parties filed a joint stipulation on June 26, 2025, agreeing that compensation should be awarded.

Chief Special Master Corcoran found the stipulation reasonable and adopted it as the decision. The court awarded Tina Rodrigues a lump sum of $17,500.00 as compensation for all items of damages available under Section 15(a) of the Vaccine Act.

This amount is to be paid through an ACH deposit to Petitioner’s counsel’s IOLTA account for prompt disbursement.