# In the United States Court of Federal Claims

OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS

Filed: January 6, 2022

* * * * * * * * * * * * * Unpublished

JOSEPH H. ROBINSON

, *

Petitioner, * No. 1 8

- 521 V

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v. * Special Master Gowen

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SECRETARY OF HEALTH * Decision on Stipulation;

AND HUMAN SERVICES, * Pneumococcal con jugate

* ( “ Prevnar13 ” ); Parsonage

- Turner

Respondent. * Syndrome.

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Jeff rey S. Pop, Jeffrey S. Pop & As sociates, Beverly Hills, CA., for petitioner.

Catherine E. Stolar

, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for respondent.

DECISION ON STIPULATION 1



### On A pril 9, 2018

, Joseph H. Robinson (“petitioner”), filed a petition for compensation

under the National Vaccine Injury Program. 2 

### Petition (ECF No. 1). Petitioner alleges that as a

result of receiving the pneumococcal conjugate ( “ Prevnar13 ” ) vaccine on April 28, 2015 , he

suffered from Parsonage

- Turner Syndrome. Id. at Preamble.

On January 6, 2022, respondent filed a stipulation providing that a decision should be

entered awarding compensation to petitioner. Stipulation ( “ Stip. ” ) (ECF No. 5 4 ). Respondent

denies that the Prevnar 13 vaccine is the cause of petitioner’s Parsonage

- Turner Syndrome or any

other injur y or his current condition. Id. at ¶ 6. Nevertheless, maintaining their respective

positions, the parties now agree that the issues between them shall be settled and that a decision

1 P ursuant to the E

- Government Act of 2002, see 44 U.S.C. § 3501 note (2012), b ecause this opinion contains a

reasoned explanation for the action in this case, I am required to post it on the website of the United States Court of

Federal Claims. The court’s website is at http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/aggregator/sources/7

. This means the

opinion will be available to anyone with access to the Internet. Before the opinion is posted on the court’s

website, each party has 14 days to file a motion requesting redaction “of any information furnished by that party:

(1) that is a trade secret or commercial or financial in substance and is privileged or confidential; or (2) that

includes medical files or similar files, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of

privacy.” Vaccine Rule 18(b). “An objecting party must provide the court with a proposed redacted version of the

decision.” Id. If neither party files a motion for redaction within 14 days, the opinion will be posted on the

cour t’s website without any changes. Id.

2 The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program is set forth in Part 2 of the National Childhood Vaccine

Injury Act of 1986, Pub. L. No. 99

- 660, 100 Stat. 3755, codified as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa

- 1 to

- 34 (2012 )

(Vaccine Act or the Act). All citations in this decision to individual sections of the Vaccine Act are to 42 U.S.C.A. §

300aa.2



### should be entered awarding the compensation to the petitioner according to the terms of the

stipulation attached hereto as Appendix A. Id. at ¶ 7.

The stipulation provides:

a) A lump sum of $40,000.00 in the form of a che ck payable to petitioner. This

amount represents compensation for all dama ges that would be available under

42 U.S.C. § 300aa

- 15(a).

A ccordingly, the Clerk of the Court SHALL ENTER JUDGMENT in accordance with

the terms of the stipulation and this decision. 3



### IT IS SO ORDERED.

s/Thomas L. Gowen

Thomas L. Gowen

Special Master

3 Entry of judgment is expedited by each party’s filing notice renouncing the right to seek review. Vaccine Rule

11(a).