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Canonical URL: https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_25-vv-00207
Package ID: USCOURTS-cofc-1_25-vv-00207
Petitioner: Dawn Clayton
Filed: 2025-02-04
Decided: 2026-02-06
Vaccine: influenza
Vaccination date: 2023-10-06
Condition: right shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA)
Outcome: entitlement_granted_pending_damages
Award amount USD: 

AI-assisted case summary:
On February 4, 2025, Dawn Clayton filed a petition alleging that an influenza vaccine administered on October 6, 2023 caused a right shoulder injury related to vaccine administration.

Respondent conceded entitlement in a Rule 4(c) report, agreeing that the record satisfied the Table SIRVA criteria and the legal prerequisites for compensation. The short entitlement ruling does not describe the first pain report, imaging, therapy, injections, work limits, or residual symptoms.

On February 6, 2026, Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran found Ms. Clayton entitled to compensation. Damages had not yet been resolved in the public ruling. Ms. Clayton was represented by Maximillian J. Muller of Muller Brazil, LLP.

Theory of causation field:
Influenza vaccine on October 6, 2023 causing right SIRVA; adult self-filed petitioner, exact age not stated; onset within Table window. ENTITLEMENT CONCEDED; damages pending. Rule 4(c) found Table SIRVA and legal prerequisites satisfied; public ruling lacks detailed clinical/damages facts. Chief SM Brian H. Corcoran; petition February 4, 2025; decision February 6, 2026. Attorney Maximillian J. Muller.

Public staged source text:

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DOCUMENT 1: USCOURTS-cofc-1_25-vv-00207-0
Date issued/filed: 2026-03-09
Pages: 2
Docket text: PUBLIC ORDER/RULING (Originally filed: 02/06/2026) regarding 22 Ruling on Entitlement, ( Signed by Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran. )(mpj) Service on parties made.
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Case 1:25-vv-00207-UNJ Document 24 Filed 03/09/26 Page 1 of 2
In the United States Court of Federal Claims
OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS
No. 25-0207V
DAWN CLAYTON, Chief Special Master Corcoran
Petitioner,
v. Filed: February 6, 2026
SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES,
Respondent.
Maximillian J. Muller, Muller Brazil, LLP, Dresher, PA, for Petitioner.
Ryan Daniel Pyles, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
RULING ON ENTITLEMENT1
On February 4, 2025, Dawn Clayton filed a petition for compensation under the
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, 42 U.S.C. § 300aa-10, et seq.2 (the
“Vaccine Act”), alleging that following her receipt of an influenza (“flu”) vaccine on October
6, 2023, she suffered a right-sided shoulder injury related to vaccine administration
(“SIRVA”), as defined in the Vaccine Injury Table, 42 C.F.R. § 100.3 (“the Table”). Petition
at 1. The case was assigned to the Special Processing Unit of the Office of Special
Masters.
On February 4, 2026, 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 claim meets the Table criteria for a right-sided SIRVA. Id. at
2 (citing 42 C.F.R. §§ 100.3(a), (c)(10)). Respondent further agrees that Petitioner has
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-00207-UNJ Document 24 Filed 03/09/26 Page 2 of 2
satisfied all legal prerequisites for compensation under the Vaccine Act. Id. at 2-3 (citing
Section 13(a)(1)(B); Section 11(c)(1)(D)(i)).
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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