Thomas Van Horn, Jr. v. HHS - Influenza, Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) (2025)

Thomas Van Horn, Jr. filed a petition alleging that an influenza vaccine administered on November 21, 2022 caused Guillain-Barre syndrome. Respondent conceded entitlement under the Vaccine Injury Table.

The public damages proffer does not set out the full onset, hospitalization, diagnostic, treatment, or rehabilitation story, but it resolved compensation for pain and suffering and unreimbursed expenses. On April 24, 2025, Chief Special Master Brian H.

Corcoran awarded $195,000.00 for pain and suffering and $5,539.37 in past unreimbursed expenses, for a total of $200,539.37. A later attorney-fee decision was separate from injury compensation.