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

Filed 2024-08-30Decided 2025-04-24Vaccine Influenza

compensated$200,539

Case summary [AI summaries can sometimes make mistakes]

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.

Theory of causation

Influenza vaccine November 21, 2022 causing Table GBS; adult, exact age not stated. ENTITLEMENT CONCEDED; COMPENSATED. Award $195,000 pain/suffering + $5,539.37 expenses = $200,539.37. Chief SM Brian H. Corcoran; petition August 30, 2024; damages April 24, 2025.

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