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# In the United States Court of Federal Claims

OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS

Filed: November 9, 2021

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S HEILA ENGLISH

, * UNPUBLISHED

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Petitioner

, * N o

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v. * Special Master Dorsey

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SECRETARY OF HEALTH * Decis io n Based on Stipulation;

AND HUMAN SERVICES, * Infl ue n za ( “ Fl u ” ) Vaccine; Bell ’ s

* Palsy.

Respondent. *

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Edward M. Kraus

, Law Offices of Chicago Kent

, Chicago, I L

, f or petit io ne r

. Adriana R. Teitel

, U S De partment of Justice, Washington, DC , for respondent.

DECISION BASED ON STIPULATION 1

On May 16 , 201 7

, Sheila English ( “petitioner ”) filed a petition in the National Vacc ine

Injury Compensation Progra m

. 2 Pet itione r all eg ed that a s a res ult of an influen z a (“ flu ”) v accine

on October 14, 2015

, s he developed Bell ’ s palsy

. Petition at 1 (ECF No. 1 )

.

On November 9 , 2021 , th e parties filed a st ipu lation rec ommendi n g an award of

com pensat i on to peti tioner

. Stipulatio n (ECF N o. 6 7 ). Responde nt denies that the flu vaccine

cause d petitioner to suffer from Bell ’ s palsy , and further denies that the flu vaccine caused

petitioner to suffer any other injury or her current condition. Id. at ¶ 6. Nevertheless

, the parties

1 B ecause this Decision contains a reas o ned ex p lanation for the action in this case, the

undersigned is required to post it on the United States Court o f Fed eral C la ims’ website in

acc ordance with t he E

- Government Act of 2002. 44 U.S. C. § 3501 note (2012) ( F ederal

Management and Promotion of E l ectr on i c Government Services). This means the D e cision will

be available to anyone wit h access to the I nternet. In accord an ce with Vaccine Rul e 18(b),

petit ioner has 14 day s to identify and mov e to redact medical o r o ther information, the disclosure

of w hich w o uld constitute an unwarranted invasion of privacy. If, upon review, the undersi gned

agrees that the iden tifie d mate ri al fits within this definit ion, t he undersigned w ill redact such

mater ial from public acces s.

2 The National Vaccine Injury Com p ensa ti o n Program is set forth in Part 2 of the N a tional

Chi ldhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, Pub. L. No . 99

- 660 , 100 Stat. 3 755, codified as am ended,

4 2 U.S. C. §§ 300aa

- 1 to

- 34 (2012) (“Vaccine Act” or “the Act”). Al l citations in this D ecision

to indi v idua l s ections of t he Vaccine Act are to 42 U.S. C . § 300aa

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agree to the joint stipulation, attached h ereto as Ap pe ndix A

. The undersigned fi nds the

stipula tion reasonable and adopts it as the decision of the C o urt i n awarding damages, on the

terms set forth t herei n.

The parties stipu late that peti ti oner shall receive the following compensation:

A lum p sum of $ 90,000 .00 i n the form of a che ck payab le to petitioner

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T h is amount represent s compensation for all dam ages that would be available under 42

U.S

. C

. § 300aa

- 15(a). Stipulatio n at ¶ 8.

Th e undersigned approves the r equested am ount for petition er ’ s com pensa tion.

A ccordingly, an awar d should be ma de consistent wi th the stipulation.

In the absence of a mot ion for review filed pursuant to RCFC App e n d ix B, the Clerk of

Court SH ALL ENTER JUDG M ENT in accordance with the terms of th e parties’ stipul ation. 3

IT I S SO O RD ERED.

s/ Nora Beth Dorsey

Nora Beth Dorse y

Special Master

3 Pursuant to Vaccine Rule 11(a), entry of j udgment is ex pedite d by the parties’ joi nt filin g of

n otice renouncing the right to seek re view.