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Canonical URL: https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_25-vv-00806
Package ID: USCOURTS-cofc-1_25-vv-00806
Petitioner: Susan Goff
Filed: 2025-05-12
Decided: 2026-02-12
Vaccine: tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis (Tdap)
Vaccination date: 2023-09-27
Condition: shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA)
Outcome: entitlement_granted_pending_damages
Award amount USD: 

AI-assisted case summary:
On May 12, 2025, Susan Goff filed a petition alleging a Table SIRVA after receiving a Tdap vaccine on September 27, 2023.

Respondent filed a Rule 4(c) report and proffer conceding entitlement, concluding that Ms. Goff's injury was consistent with Table SIRVA. The short public ruling does not describe the injection site, onset narrative, medical visits, imaging, therapy, injections, or functional effects.

On February 12, 2026, Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran found Ms. Goff entitled to compensation. Damages had not yet been resolved in the public ruling.

Theory of causation field:
Tdap vaccine September 27, 2023 causing SIRVA; adult self-filed petitioner, exact age not stated. ENTITLEMENT CONCEDED; damages pending. Rule 4(c) conceded Table SIRVA; public ruling lacks clinical chronology. Chief SM Brian H. Corcoran; petition May 12, 2025; decision February 12, 2026.

Public staged source text:

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DOCUMENT 1: USCOURTS-cofc-1_25-vv-00806-0
Date issued/filed: 2026-03-16
Pages: 2
Docket text: PUBLIC ORDER/RULING (Originally filed: 02/12/2026) regarding 23 Ruling on Entitlement ( Signed by Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran. )(mpj) Service on parties made.
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Case 1:25-vv-00806-UNJ Document 31 Filed 03/16/26 Page 1 of 2
In the United States Court of Federal Claims
OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS
No. 25-0806V
SUSAN GOFF,
Chief Special Master Corcoran
Petitioner,
v. Filed: February 12, 2026
SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES,
Respondent.
John Robert Howie, Howie Law, PC, Dallas, TX, for Petitioner.
Irene Angelica Firippis, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
RULING ON ENTITLEMENT1
On May 12, 2025, Susan Goff 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”), a defined Table injury, after receiving a tetanus, diphtheria,
acellular pertussis (“Tdap”) vaccine on September 27, 2023. Petition at 1, ¶ 1, 15.
Petitioner further alleges that she received the vaccine within the United States, that she
suffered the residual effects of her SIRVA injury for more than six months, and that neither
she nor any other party has filed a civil case or received compensation for her SIRVA
(cid:3)
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-00806-UNJ Document 31 Filed 03/16/26 Page 2 of 2
injury. Id. at ¶¶ 1, 13-14. The case was assigned to the Special Processing Unit of the
Office of Special Masters.
On February 12, 2026, Respondent filed his Rule 4(c) Report and Proffer of
Compensation in which he concedes that Petitioner is entitled to compensation in this
case. Respondent’s Rule 4(c) Report and Proffer of Compensation at 1. Specifically,
Respondent believes “that [P]etitioner’s alleged injury is consistent with SIRVA as defined
by the Vaccine Injury Table.” Id. at 4. Respondent further agrees that “based on the record
as it now stands, [P]etitioner has satisfied all legal prerequisites for compensation under
the Act.” Id. at 5.
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
2(cid:3)
(cid:3)