VICP Registry Case Source Bundle
Canonical URL: https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_25-vv-00751
Package ID: USCOURTS-cofc-1_25-vv-00751
Petitioner: Skyla Waddell
Filed: 2025-05-01
Decided: 2025-10-07
Vaccine: meningitis
Vaccination date: 2023-03-15
Condition: shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA)
Outcome: entitlement_granted_pending_damages
Award amount USD: 

AI-assisted case summary:
On May 1, 2025, Skyla Waddell filed a petition seeking compensation after a meningitis vaccination on March 15, 2023. She alleged a shoulder injury related to vaccine administration and residual effects lasting more than six months.

Respondent conceded entitlement in a Rule 4(c) report filed on October 7, 2025. Respondent stated that the claim met the Table criteria for SIRVA: Ms. Waddell had no prior affected-shoulder pain, inflammation, or dysfunction that would explain the post-vaccination findings; pain more likely than not began within 48 hours; pain and reduced range of motion were limited to the vaccinated shoulder; and no other condition explained the symptoms.

Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran granted entitlement on October 7, 2025. The public ruling does not describe the treatment course, diagnostic testing, daily-life effects, or damages evidence. Compensation amount remains to be determined.

Theory of causation field:
Meningitis vaccination, March 15, 2023, alleged SIRVA. ENTITLEMENT GRANTED; damages pending. Respondent conceded Table SIRVA in an October 7, 2025 Rule 4(c) report: no prior affected-shoulder pain/dysfunction explaining the findings, pain onset within 48 hours, pain/reduced ROM limited to vaccinated shoulder, no other explanatory condition, and legal prerequisites satisfied. Public ruling gives no detailed treatment chronology or award. Chief Special Master Corcoran October 7, 2025. Attorney David John Carney; respondent Emilie Williams.

Public staged source text:

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DOCUMENT 1: USCOURTS-cofc-1_25-vv-00751-0
Date issued/filed: 2025-11-10
Pages: 2
Docket text: PUBLIC ORDER/RULING (Originally filed: 10/07/2025) regarding 15 Ruling on Entitlement Signed by Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran. (nh) Service on parties made.
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Case 1:25-vv-00751-UNJ Document 18 Filed 11/10/25 Page 1 of 2
In the United States Court of Federal Claims
OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS
No. 25-0751V
SKYLA WADDELL, Chief Special Master Corcoran
Petitioner, Filed: October 7, 2025
v.
SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES,
Respondent.
David John Carney, Green & Schafle LLC, Philadelphia, PA, for Petitioner.
Emilie Williams, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
RULING ON ENTITLEMENT1
On May 1, 2025, Skyla Waddell 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 she suffered a shoulder injury related to vaccine
administration (“SIRVA”) following a meningitis vaccination she received on March 15,
2023. Petition at 1. Petitioner further alleges that she suffered the residual effects of her
vaccine-related injury for more than six months. Petition at ¶ 29. The case was assigned
to the Special Processing Unit of the Office of Special Masters.
On October 7, 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. Respondent states that “Petitioner’s claim meets the Table criteria for SIRVA.
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-00751-UNJ Document 18 Filed 11/10/25 Page 2 of 2
Specifically, Petitioner had no history of pain, inflammation or dysfunction of the affected
shoulder prior to intramuscular vaccine administration that would explain the alleged
signs, symptoms, examination findings, and/or diagnostic studies occurring after vaccine
injection; she more likely than not suffered the onset of pain within forty-eight hours of
vaccine administration; her pain and reduce range of motion were limited to the shoulder
in which the intramuscular vaccine was administered; and there I no other condition or
abnormality present that would explain Petitioner’s symptoms.” Id. at 3-4. Respondent
further agrees that “in light of the information contained in Petitioner’s medical records,
affidavit, and petition, Respondent concede that entitlement to compensation is
appropriate under the terms of the Vaccine Act.” Id. at 4.
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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