Court Opinion

ID: 9483189
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 09:13:57.373648+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:49:29.129161
License: Public Domain

WILSON COWEN, Senior Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I agree with the result reached by the court and concur generally in its opinion, subject to the following:
With respect to our review in vaccine cases after the 1989 amendments to the applicable statute, the opinion states that the standard of review therein set forth is “consistent with and elaborates upon the standard for review of post-1989 vaccine compensation cases first enunciated in Hines v. Secretary of the Dep’t of Health and Human Servs., 940 F.2d 1518 (Fed.Cir.1991).”
In Hines, the court stated:
in a case arising under the 1989 amendments to the Vaccine Act, we review de novo the Claims Court’s determination as to whether or not the special master’s decision was arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law. In effect, then, we review the underlying decision of the special master under the arbitrary and capricious standard of § 300aa-12(e)(2)(B). [Citation omitted].
940 F.2d at 1524.
I join in the court's opinion with the understanding that full effect has been given to our decision in Hines and that the opinion does not limit or conflict in any way with the above-quoted statement in that case.