VICP Registry Case Source Bundle
Canonical URL: https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_25-vv-00186
Package ID: USCOURTS-cofc-1_25-vv-00186
Petitioner: Travis Rowe
Filed: 2025-01-31
Decided: 2025-09-30
Vaccine: influenza
Vaccination date: 2022-12-14
Condition: Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)
Outcome: entitlement_granted_pending_damages
Award amount USD: 

AI-assisted case summary:
On January 31, 2025, Travis Rowe filed a petition alleging that an influenza vaccination administered on December 14, 2022 caused Guillain-Barre Syndrome. He alleged residual symptoms lasting more than six months.

Respondent conceded entitlement in a Rule 4(c) report filed on September 26, 2025. Respondent stated that Mr. Rowe satisfied the Vaccine Injury Table and QAI criteria, which afford a presumption of causation when GBS begins between three and forty-two days after a seasonal flu vaccination and there is no apparent alternative cause.

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

Theory of causation field:
Influenza vaccine, December 14, 2022, alleged GBS. ENTITLEMENT GRANTED; damages pending. Respondent conceded Table/QAI criteria in September 26, 2025 Rule 4(c): GBS onset between 3 and 42 days after seasonal flu vaccination and no apparent alternative cause. Public ruling does not describe onset date, hospitalization, testing, treatments, experts, or award. Chief Special Master Corcoran September 30, 2025. Attorney Ronald Craig Homer; respondent Benjamin Rex Eisenberg.

Public staged source text:

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DOCUMENT 1: USCOURTS-cofc-1_25-vv-00186-0
Date issued/filed: 2025-10-31
Pages: 2
Docket text: PUBLIC ORDER/RULING (Originally filed: 09/30/2025) regarding 22 Ruling on Entitlement Signed by Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran. (nh) Service on parties made.
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Case 1:25-vv-00186-UNJ Document 24 Filed 10/31/25 Page 1 of 2
In the United States Court of Federal Claims
OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS
No. 25-0186V
TRAVIS ROWE, Chief Special Master Corcoran
Petitioner, Filed: September 30, 2025
v.
SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES,
Respondent.
Ronald Craig Homer, Conway, Homer, P.C., Boston, MA, for Petitioner.
Benjamin Rex Eisenberg, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for
Respondent.
RULING ON ENTITLEMENT1
On January 31, 2025, Travis Rowe 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 he developed Guillain-Barré Syndrome (“GBS”) as
a result of an influenza (“flu”) vaccine administered on December 14, 2022. Petition at 1.
Petitioner further alleges that he suffered the residual symptoms of his injury for more
than six months. Petition at 15. The case was assigned to the Special Processing Unit of
the Office of Special Masters.
On September 26, 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)
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 1:25-vv-00186-UNJ Document 24 Filed 10/31/25 Page 2 of 2
Report at 1. Specifically, Respondent states that “petitioner has satisfied the criteria set
forth in the revised 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 3-42 after a seasonal flu vaccination and there is no apparent
alternative cause.” Id. at 7.
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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