VICP Registry Case Source Bundle
Canonical URL: https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_25-vv-00447
Package ID: USCOURTS-cofc-1_25-vv-00447
Petitioner: Jason Koh
Filed: 2025-03-10
Decided: 2025-09-29
Vaccine: Tdap
Vaccination date: 2024-04-12
Condition: right shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA)
Outcome: entitlement_granted_pending_damages
Award amount USD: 

AI-assisted case summary:
On March 10, 2025, Jason Koh filed a petition alleging a right shoulder injury related to vaccine administration after a Tdap vaccination on April 12, 2024. The public ruling is brief and does not state his exact age, but the case was filed in his own name as an adult-type claim.

Respondent filed a Rule 4(c) report on September 25, 2025 conceding that Mr. Koh was entitled to compensation. The concession stated that his alleged injury was consistent with a Table SIRVA and that he had satisfied the Vaccine Act's legal prerequisites, including residual effects lasting more than six months. The public ruling does not include the treatment records, imaging, first-symptom description, or day-to-day limitations.

Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran granted entitlement on September 29, 2025. Damages remain pending in the public record. Mr. Koh was represented by Jeffrey S. Pop, and respondent by Benjamin Patrick Warder.

Theory of causation field:
Tdap vaccine, April 12, 2024, adult inferred, alleged right SIRVA. ENTITLEMENT GRANTED; damages pending. Respondent conceded the Table SIRVA requirements and all legal prerequisites, including residual effects longer than six months. Public ruling does not provide detailed onset, treatment, imaging, or functional limitations beyond the SIRVA concession. Chief Special Master Corcoran September 29, 2025. Attorney Jeffrey S. Pop; respondent Benjamin Patrick Warder.

Public staged source text:

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DOCUMENT 1: USCOURTS-cofc-1_25-vv-00447-0
Date issued/filed: 2025-10-30
Pages: 2
Docket text: PUBLIC ORDER/RULING (Originally filed: 09/29/2025) regarding 15 Ruling on Entitlement ( Signed by Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran. )(mpj) Service on parties made.
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Case 1:25-vv-00447-UNJ Document 17 Filed 10/30/25 Page 1 of 2
In the United States Court of Federal Claims
OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS
No. 25-0447V
JASON KOH, Chief Special Master Corcoran
Petitioner,
v. Filed: September 29, 2025
SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES,
Respondent.
Jeffrey S. Pop, Jeffrey S. Pop & Associates, Beverly Hills, CA, for Petitioner.
Benjamin Patrick Warder, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for
Respondent.
RULING ON ENTITLEMENT1
On March 10, 2025, Jason Koh 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 suffered a right shoulder injury related to vaccine
administration (“SIRVA”) as the result of a tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis (“Tdap”)
vaccination on April 12, 2024. Petition at 1. The case was assigned to the Special
Processing Unit of the Office of Special Masters.
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 agrees that Petitioner’s alleged injury is consistent
with SIRVA as defined by the Vaccine Injury Table. Id. at 4 (citing 42 C.F.R. §§ 100.3(a),
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-00447-UNJ Document 17 Filed 10/30/25 Page 2 of 2
(c)(10)). Respondent further agrees that Petitioner suffered the residual effects of his
condition for more than six months, and that Petitioner has satisfied all legal prerequisites
for compensation under the Vaccine Act. Id. at 5 (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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