Mary O. Lilly v. HHS - HPV, vasovagal syncope with facial injury and avulsion of right central incisor tooth (2025)

On July 19, 2024, Mary O. Lilly filed a petition alleging that she experienced vasovagal syncope after receiving a human papillomavirus vaccine on June 24, 2022.

The public rulings identify the resulting injuries as facial injury with swelling and headache, along with avulsion of her right central incisor tooth. Respondent conceded entitlement in a Rule 4(c) report, agreeing that the record satisfied the Vaccine Injury Table for vasovagal syncope and that no alternative cause explained the event.

Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran found entitlement on January 10, 2025.

The public decisions do not provide a detailed emergency-room or dental-treatment chronology beyond the syncope and injury descriptions. On March 11, 2025, Chief Special Master Corcoran adopted respondent's damages proffer.

Ms. Lilly was awarded $50,000.00 for pain and suffering and $3,418.66 in unreimbursed expenses, for a total lump sum of $53,418.66.