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Canonical URL: https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_24-vv-01842
Package ID: USCOURTS-cofc-1_24-vv-01842
Petitioner: Loretta Dawley
Filed: 2024-11-12
Decided: 2025-09-30
Vaccine: influenza
Vaccination date: 2021-11-10
Condition: Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)
Outcome: entitlement_granted_pending_damages
Award amount USD: 

AI-assisted case summary:
On November 12, 2024, Loretta Dawley filed a petition alleging that an influenza vaccination on November 10, 2021 caused Guillain-Barre Syndrome. She alleged residual effects lasting more than six months and no prior civil recovery.

Respondent conceded entitlement in a Rule 4(c) report filed on September 25, 2025. Respondent agreed that Ms. Dawley satisfied the Vaccine Injury Table and Qualifications and Aids to Interpretation for GBS, including the 3-to-42-day onset window after seasonal flu vaccination and the absence of an apparent alternative cause.

Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran granted entitlement on September 30, 2025. The public ruling does not describe the specific onset date, hospitalization, diagnostic testing, treatment, expert evidence, or damages record. Compensation remains pending.

Theory of causation field:
Influenza vaccine, November 10, 2021, alleged Table GBS. ENTITLEMENT GRANTED; damages pending. Respondent conceded in a September 25, 2025 Rule 4(c) report that Ms. Dawley satisfied the GBS Table/QAI criteria, including onset 3-42 days after flu vaccination and no apparent alternative cause, plus residual effects >6 months. Public ruling gives no detailed clinical timeline or award. Chief Special Master Corcoran September 30, 2025. Attorney Amber Diane Wilson; respondent Rachelle Bishop.

Public staged source text:

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DOCUMENT 1: USCOURTS-cofc-1_24-vv-01842-0
Date issued/filed: 2025-11-03
Pages: 2
Docket text: PUBLIC ORDER/RULING (Originally filed: 09/30/2025) regarding 20 Ruling on Entitlement. Signed by Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran. (cr) Service on parties made.
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Case 1:24-vv-01842-UNJ Document 25 Filed 11/03/25 Page 1 of 2
In the United States Court of Federal Claims
OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS
No. 24-1842V
LORETTA DAWLEY, Chief Special Master Corcoran
Petitioner, Filed: September 30, 2025
v.
SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES,
Respondent.
Amber Diane Wilson, Wilson Science Law, Washington, DC, for Petitioner.
Rachelle Bishop, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
RULING ON ENTITLEMENT1
On November 12, 2024, Loretta Dawley filed a petition for compensation under the
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, 42 U.S.C. §300aa-10, et seq.2 (the
“Vaccine Act”). Petitioner alleges that she suffered a Table injury - Guillain-Barré
Syndrome (“GBS”) as a result of her November 10, 2021 influenza (“flu”) vaccination.
Petition at 1-3. Petitioner further alleges that she received the vaccine in the United
States, that she suffered the residual effects of her injury for more than six months, and
that there has been no prior award or settlement of a civil action on her behalf as a result
of her injury. See Petition at ¶¶ 3, 14, 16-17. The case was assigned to the Special
Processing Unit of the Office of Special Masters.
1 Because this Ruling contains a reasoned explanation for the action taken in this case, it must be made
publicly accessible and will be posted on the United States Court of Federal Claims' website, and/or
at https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/uscourts/national/cofc, in accordance with the E-Government
Act of 2002. 44 U.S.C. § 3501 note (2018) (Federal Management and Promotion of Electronic Government
Services). This means the Ruling will be available to anyone with access to the internet. In accordance
with Vaccine Rule 18(b), Petitioner has 14 days to identify and move to redact medical or other information,
the disclosure of which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of privacy. If, upon review, I agree that
the identified material fits within this definition, I will redact such material from public access.
2 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, Pub. L. No. 99-660, 100 Stat. 3755. Hereinafter, for ease
of citation, all section references to the Vaccine Act will be to the pertinent subparagraph of 42 U.S.C. §
300aa (2018).

Case 1:24-vv-01842-UNJ Document 25 Filed 11/03/25 Page 2 of 2
On September 25, 2025, Respondent filed his Rule 4(c) report in which he
concedes that Petitioner is entitled to compensation in this case. Respondent’s Rule 4(c)
Report at 1. Specifically, Respondent states
Petitioner has satisfied the criteria set forth in the Vaccine Injury Table
(“Table”) and the Qualifications and Aids to Interpretation (“QAI”), which
afford petitioner a presumption of causation if the onset of GBS occurs
between 3 and 42 days after a seasonal flu vaccination, and there is no
more likely alternative diagnosis and no apparent alternative cause. 42
C.F.R. § 100.3(a)(XIV)(D), (c)(15). Petitioner’s condition also has persisted
for more than six months. See 42 U.S.C. § 300aa-11(c)(1)(D)(i).
Id. at 4.
In view of Respondent’s position and the evidence of record, I find that
Petitioner is entitled to compensation.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
s/Brian H. Corcoran
Brian H. Corcoran
Chief Special Master
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