Off-Table causation wins

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The citable precedent set for causation-in-fact. These are the reasoned decisions in which a Special Master found, under Althen v. HHS, that a vaccine more likely than not caused an injury that is not on the Vaccine Injury Table, or fell outside its onset window. Filter by condition and vaccine to find the decisions, Special Masters and experts behind a theory that has already succeeded.

Off-Table wins

168

reasoned decisions finding causation

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Off-Table causation wins by condition

Reasoned decisions where the petitioner proved causation without a Table presumption.

Decisions

Decided	Case	Vaccine	Condition	Special Master	Petitioner's expert(s)	Basis	Award
2026-05-13	Harvard Davis	Influenza	Guillain-Barré Syndrome	Mindy Michaels Roth	not identified	Off-Table	$586K
2026-03-25	Roy Romero	Influenza	Guillain-Barré Syndrome	Brian H. Corcoran	Akbari	Althen analysis (Table also discussed)	entitlement
2026-03-18	Christopher Bost	Influenza	Other / multiple	Brian H. Corcoran	not identified	Althen analysis (Table also discussed)	entitlement
2026-02-11	Susan Hubbard	Influenza	Transverse myelitis	Nora Beth Dorsey	Joseph Jeret, Joseph	Off-Table	entitlement
2026-01-21	JAMES PATTERSON	Influenza	SIRVA	Brian H. Corcoran	not identified	Off-Table	entitlement
2025-12-22	Guy Irwin	Influenza	Encephalitis / encephalopathy	Thomas L. Gowen	not identified	Off-Table	$426K
2025-12-16	Joel Lemieux	Influenza	Other / multiple	Thomas L. Gowen	Eric Gershwin	Off-Table	entitlement
2025-12-02	Deborah McNabb	Influenza	Other / multiple	Thomas L. Gowen	David Rosenstreich	Althen analysis (Table also discussed)	entitlement
2025-11-05	Teresa Mazza	Influenza	SIRVA	Brian H. Corcoran	not identified	Off-Table	$115K
2025-10-27	Samuel J. La Bine	Influenza	Brachial neuritis	Herbrina Sanders Young	Justin Aaron Willer, Marc Serota	Althen analysis (Table also discussed)	entitlement
2025-10-03	Diana Songero	Influenza	Transverse myelitis	Mindy Michaels Roth	Carlo Tornatore	Off-Table	entitlement
2025-09-18	Richard Dean Haugan	Influenza	SIRVA	Christian J. Moran	not identified	Off-Table	entitlement
2025-06-23	Ashley T. Hunsucker	Influenza	Small fiber neuropathy	Herbrina Sanders Young	Lawrence Steinman	Off-Table	entitlement
2025-04-23	Kristine Ballard	Influenza	Other / multiple	Mindy Michaels Roth	Eric Gershwin	Althen analysis (Table also discussed)	entitlement
2025-03-19	S.R.	Influenza	Guillain-Barré Syndrome	Mindy Michaels Roth	David Simpson	Althen analysis (Table also discussed)	entitlement
2025-03-05	E.M.	Influenza	Encephalitis / encephalopathy	Daniel T. Horner	Jeffrey M. Silverman	Althen analysis (Table also discussed)	entitlement
2025-02-21	A.G.C.	Influenza	Seizure disorder	Mindy Michaels Roth	Stephen Nelson	Althen analysis	entitlement
2024-12-18	Jaclyn McNally	Influenza	SIRVA	Brian H. Corcoran	not identified	Off-Table	$63K
2024-12-04	Jeffrey D. Musumeci	Influenza	Other / multiple	Mindy Michaels Roth	not identified	Off-Table	entitlement
2024-11-05	Vanessa Morris	Influenza	SIRVA	Brian H. Corcoran	not identified	Off-Table	$502K
2024-09-13	Duane Hoffman	Influenza	Other / multiple	Christian J. Moran	not identified	Off-Table	—
2024-08-08	Josephine Inyang	Influenza	Other / multiple	Christian J. Moran	not identified	Off-Table	entitlement
2024-05-21	Jodi Fiske	Influenza	Small fiber neuropathy	Katherine E. Oler	not identified	Off-Table	$99K
2024-04-25	Corey Silvers	Influenza	Other / multiple	Brian H. Corcoran	not identified	Off-Table	entitlement
2024-03-26	Mary Saville	Influenza	Other / multiple	Brian H. Corcoran	not identified	Off-Table	$52K
2024-02-12	Ronald Sturdevant	Influenza	Bell's palsy	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Althen analysis	$100K
2024-01-03	Benjamin Larson	Influenza	SIRVA	Thomas L. Gowen	not identified	Off-Table	$60K
2023-12-21	Robert Joseph Gardner	Influenza	Encephalitis / encephalopathy	Thomas L. Gowen	Steinman	Off-Table	entitlement
2023-09-29	Lisa Antalosky	Influenza	Other / multiple	Katherine E. Oler	not identified	Off-Table	$1.1M
2023-06-21	Joann Forrest	Influenza	SIRVA	Daniel T. Horner	not identified	Off-Table	$45K
2023-06-12	Hans Hofer	Influenza	Encephalitis / encephalopathy	Thomas L. Gowen	not identified	Off-Table	entitlement
2023-05-22	Duane Morgan	Influenza	Brachial neuritis	Thomas L. Gowen	Maria Chen, Vera Byers	Althen analysis (Table also discussed)	entitlement
2023-05-15	Shawn’Quavious A’drez Hinton	Influenza	Guillain-Barré Syndrome	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Althen analysis	$178K
2023-03-09	Judy Echols	Influenza	Brachial neuritis	Thomas L. Gowen	not identified	Off-Table	$110K
2023-01-24	E. A.	Influenza	Bell's palsy	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	entitlement
2022-11-09	Robert Galante	Influenza	SIRVA	Thomas L. Gowen	not identified	Off-Table	entitlement
2022-10-04	Glenn Reinhardt	Influenza	Optic neuritis	Katherine E. Oler	not identified	Off-Table	$2.2M
2022-05-25	James Lagle	Influenza	SIRVA	Thomas L. Gowen	not identified	Off-Table	entitlement
2021-04-12	Elizabeth Nicole Robinson	Influenza	Other / multiple	Katherine E. Oler	Lawrence Steinman	Off-Table	entitlement
2021-02-26	Rusell Blender	Influenza	Other / multiple	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	entitlement
2021-01-25	Jeffrey Schafer	Influenza	SIRVA	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	entitlement
2021-01-05	Shanna Salazar	Influenza	Other / multiple	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	entitlement
2020-12-09	Melissa Bishop	Influenza	SIRVA	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	$53K
2020-11-25	Amanda L Isaacson	Influenza	Other / multiple	Mindy Michaels Roth	Younger	Off-Table	entitlement
2020-10-09	Theodore A. Bryan	Influenza	Other / multiple	Katherine E. Oler	Charles Lapp, McNulty, Charles	Off-Table	entitlement
2020-09-23	Lori Schoonover	Influenza	SIRVA	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	$230K
2020-08-05	Jean Gentile	Influenza	SIRVA	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	$96K
2020-07-30	Kavita Desai	Influenza	SIRVA	Thomas L. Gowen	Mark S. McNulty	Off-Table	entitlement
2019-09-30	Maya Sandoval	Influenza	SIRVA	Thomas L. Gowen	not identified	Off-Table	$369K
2019-09-24	J.S.	Influenza	Transverse myelitis	Brian H. Corcoran	not identified	Althen analysis (Table also discussed)	$902K
2019-09-04	Monica Portee	Influenza	SIRVA	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	$116K
2019-08-07	Deborah Kent	Influenza	SIRVA	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	$83K
2019-07-08	Elizabeth Schandel	Influenza	SIRVA	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	$86K
2019-06-12	Wendy Borders	Influenza	SIRVA	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	$70K
2019-05-07	Cheryl Gill	Influenza	SIRVA	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	$70K
2019-04-02	Courtney P. Binette	Influenza	SIRVA	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	$178K
2018-11-08	Kimberly S. Thompson	Influenza	Other / multiple	Laura D. Millman	not identified	Off-Table	$708K
2018-10-18	Gail Dirksen	Influenza	SIRVA	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	$87K
2018-08-29	Wossen Tariku	Influenza	SIRVA	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	$70K
2018-03-26	Deborah Marino	Influenza	SIRVA	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	$75K
2018-03-05	Kristina Garrison	Influenza	Narcolepsy / cataplexy	Thomas L. Gowen	not identified	Off-Table	$1.0M
2018-02-01	Amrit Dhanoa	Influenza	SIRVA	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	$96K
2018-01-11	Diane Scott	Influenza	SIRVA	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	$70K
2017-12-01	Steven Zebofsky	Influenza	SIRVA	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	$55K
2017-10-31	Betty D. Backman	Influenza	SIRVA	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	$45K
2017-03-06	Bailey Day	Influenza	Other / multiple	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	$1.4M
2016-10-04	Diane C. Perl	Influenza	SIRVA	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	$100K
2016-03-21	Andrew Rodd	Influenza	Other / multiple	Thomas L. Gowen	not identified	Off-Table	$871K
2015-05-06	J.K.	Influenza	Seizure disorder	Laura D. Millman	not identified	Althen analysis	—
2014-11-18	Jung Park, M.D.	Influenza	Other / multiple	Laura D. Millman	not identified	Althen analysis	—
2014-08-20	Roswell Perez	Influenza	Other / multiple	Thomas L. Gowen	not identified	Off-Table	—
2014-08-18	William H. Kennedy, Jr.	Influenza	Syncope	Lisa D. Hamilton-Fieldman	not identified	Off-Table	—
2014-06-27	Raithe Pace	Influenza	SIRVA	Nora Beth Dorsey	not identified	Off-Table	$95K
2014-06-12	Fred Brock	Influenza	Guillain-Barré Syndrome	Thomas L. Gowen	not identified	Off-Table	—
2011-06-24	Stacey Heinzelman	Influenza	Guillain-Barré Syndrome	—	Marcel Kinsbourne	Althen analysis (Table also discussed)	—

Selection rule. A case is listed when a Special Master issued a reasoned decision in the petitioner's favour and either the extracted theory of causation is Off-Table, or the decision text applies the Althen test. Where the text also discusses a Table injury the Basis column says so; some of those are alternative holdings or Table claims with an Althen fallback, so check the decision. SIRVA rulings are included only when explicitly Off-Table (pre-2017 shoulder claims). Expert names are read from the decision text where the opinion attributes them to the petitioner; absence means the text did not name one in a recognisable form, not that none testified. Verify against the linked decision before citing.

How off-Table causation is decided

When an injury is not on the Vaccine Injury Table, or falls outside its onset window, the petitioner must prove causation under the three-part test from Althen v. Secretary of HHS (Fed. Cir. 2005): a medical theory connecting the vaccine to the injury, a logical sequence of cause and effect in this petitioner's case, and a medically appropriate interval between vaccination and onset. The standard is preponderance of the evidence, and the Special Master weighs competing expert reports rather than requiring epidemiological proof.

That makes prior reasoned decisions the working precedent of the program. A theory accepted for a given vaccine and condition is easier to carry the second time, and the experts who carried it are the ones later petitioners retain. Decisions are not formally binding on other Special Masters, but they are cited constantly, and the Court of Federal Claims and the Federal Circuit review them for arbitrariness rather than re-trying the facts.