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Canonical URL: https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_24-vv-01917
Package ID: USCOURTS-cofc-1_24-vv-01917
Petitioner: Matthew David Krehbiel
Filed: 2025-07-30
Decided: 2025-08-26
Vaccine: influenza
Vaccination date: 2022-11-18
Condition: cardiac arrhythmia that resulted in his death
Outcome: dismissed
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AI-assisted case summary:
Matthew David Krehbiel allegedly received an influenza vaccine on November 18, 2022, and subsequently experienced cardiac arrhythmia that resulted in his death. His estate, represented by Jane-Alexandra Krehbiel, filed a petition for compensation under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program on July 30, 2025. The respondent, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, had not yet filed a Rule 4(c) Report. The petitioner subsequently moved to dismiss the case, which was treated as a voluntary dismissal under Rule 21(a)(1). The Chief Special Master ordered the proceedings concluded, noting that no judgment on the merits would be issued. The case was dismissed.

Theory of causation field:
unclear

Public staged source text:

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DOCUMENT 1: USCOURTS-cofc-1_24-vv-01917-0
Date issued/filed: 2025-08-26
Pages: 2
Docket text: PUBLIC ORDER/RULING (Originally filed: 07/30/2025) regarding 14 Order Concluding Proceedings. Signed by Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran. (mva) Service on parties made.
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Case 1:24-vv-01917-UNJ Document 15 Filed 08/26/25 Page 1 of 2
In the United States Court of Federal Claims
OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS
No. 24-1917V
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JANE-ALEXANDRA KREHBIEL *
As administrator or *
ESTATE OF *
MATTHEW DAVID KREHBIEL, * Chief Special Master Corcoran
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Petitioner, * Filed: July 30, 2025
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v. *
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SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND *
HUMAN SERVICES, *
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Respondent. *
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ORDER CONCLUDING PROCEEDINGS1
On November 20, 2024, Jane-Alexandra Krehbiel, as Administrator of the Estate of
Matthew David Krehbiel, filed a petitioner for compensation under the National Vaccine Injury
Compensation Program.2 Petitioner alleges that Mr. Krehbiel experienced cardiac arrhythmia that
resulted in his death after receiving the influenza vaccine on November 18, 2022. Petition (ECF
No. 1) at 1.
The Petitioner has now moved to dismiss this case. See Motion for a Dismissal Decision,
dated July 11, 2025 (ECF No. 12). Because Respondent has not filed his Rule 4(c) Report, the
Motion is properly treated as one seeking voluntary dismissal under Rule 21(a)(1).
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Under Vaccine Rule 18(b), each party has fourteen (14) days within which to request redaction “of any information
furnished by that party: (1) that is a trade secret or commercial or financial in substance and is privileged or
confidential; or (2) that includes medical files or similar files, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly
unwarranted invasion of privacy.” Vaccine Rule 18(b). Otherwise, the whole Order will be available to the public in
its present form. Id.
2 The Vaccine Program comprises Part 2 of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, Pub. L. No. 99-660,
100 Stat. 3755 (codified as amended at 42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-10–34 (2012)) (hereinafter “Vaccine Act” or “the Act”).
All subsequent references to sections of the Vaccine Act shall be to the pertinent subparagraph of 42 U.S.C. § 300aa.

Case 1:24-vv-01917-UNJ Document 15 Filed 08/26/25 Page 2 of 2
Accordingly, this matter is concluded. This Order hereby notifies the Clerk of the Court
that proceedings “on the merits” of this Petition are now concluded, but no judgment “on
the merits” pursuant to Vaccine Rule 11 for purposes of Section 21(a) of the Act shall issue.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
/s/ Brian H. Corcoran
Brian H. Corcoran
Chief Special Master
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