Heather Camacho v. HHS - Tdap, shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) (2025)
Case summary [AI summaries can sometimes make mistakes]
On February 18, 2025, Heather Camacho filed a Vaccine Program petition after receiving a tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine on December 6, 2023. She alleged that the vaccination caused a shoulder injury related to vaccine administration and that the residual effects lasted more than six months.
Respondent filed a Rule 4(c) report conceding entitlement. The concession stated that Ms.
Camacho satisfied the Vaccine Injury Table criteria and Qualifications and Aids to Interpretation for SIRVA, and that the other legal prerequisites for compensation were met. The public entitlement and damages decisions do not describe her first symptom, shoulder examinations, imaging, injections, therapy, or daily-life limitations.
Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran found Ms.
Camacho entitled to compensation on August 15, 2025. On November 21, 2025, he awarded $45,851.54: $45,000.00 for pain and suffering and $851.54 for past unreimbursable expenses, payable as a lump sum through counsel's IOLTA account.
Ms. Camacho was represented by Paul R.
Brazil of Muller Brazil, LLP.
Theory of causation
Adult petitioner; Tdap vaccine December 6, 2023; Table SIRVA. COMPENSATED. Respondent conceded SIRVA Table criteria and legal prerequisites; public text lacks clinical chronology. Entitlement August 15, 2025; damages November 21, 2025. Award $45,851.54 = $45,000.00 pain/suffering + $851.54 expenses. Petition filed February 18, 2025. Attorney: Paul R. Brazil.
Source PDFs
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