Court Opinion

ID: 4236845
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2018-01-16 17:04:31.602442+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:15:52.022937
License: Public Domain

In the United States Court of Federal Claims
                             OFFICE OF SPECIAL MASTERS

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CHRISTINE HARRISON,      *
                         *                         No. 15-1064V
             Petitioner, *                         Special Master Christian J. Moran
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v.                       *                         Filed: December 20, 2017
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SECRETARY OF HEALTH      *                         Stipulation; Influenza (“flu”) vaccine;
AND HUMAN SERVICES,      *                         demyelinating event; vasculitis;
                         *                         amaurosis fugax; anisocria; fatigue;
                         *                         weakness; tingling
             Respondent. *
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Mark Sadaka, Mark T. Sadaka, LLC, Englewood, NJ, for Petitioner;
Ryan D. Pyles, United States Dep’t of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

                             UNPUBLISHED DECISION1

       On December 15, 2017, the parties filed a joint stipulation concerning the
petition for compensation filed by Christine Harrison on September 22, 2015.
Petitioner alleged that the influenza (“flu”) vaccine she received on September 25,
2012, which is contained in the Vaccine Injury Table (the “Table”), 42 C.F.R.
§100.3(a), caused her to suffer demyelinating event, vasculitis, amaurosis fugax,
anisocria, fatigue, weakness, tingling in her mouth, face, hand, leg, feet, and pain
in the head, face, and legs. Petitioner further alleges that she suffered the residual
effects of this injury for more than six months. Petitioner represents that there has
been no prior award or settlement of a civil action for damages on her behalf as a
result of her condition.

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         The E-Government Act, 44 U.S.C. § 3501 note (2012) (Federal Management and
Promotion of Electronic Government Services), requires that the Court post this decision on its
website. Pursuant to Vaccine Rule 18(b), the parties have 14 days to file a motion proposing
redaction of medical information or other information described in 42 U.S.C. § 300aa-12(d)(4).
Any redactions ordered by the special master will appear in the document posted on the website.
       Respondent denies that the vaccines either caused or significantly
aggravated petitioner’s alleged injuries or any other injury, and denies that
petitioner's current disabilities are the result of a vaccine-related injury.

      Nevertheless, the parties agree to the joint stipulation, attached hereto. The
undersigned finds said stipulation reasonable and adopts it as the decision of the
Court in awarding damages, on the terms set forth therein.

       Damages awarded in that stipulation include:

       A lump sum payment of $90,000.00 in the form of a check payable to
       petitioner. This amount represents compensation for all damages that
       would be available under 42 U.S.C. § 300aa-15(a).

       In the absence of a motion for review filed pursuant to RCFC, Appendix B,
the clerk is directed to enter judgment in case 15-1064V according to this decision
and the attached stipulation.2

       IT IS SO ORDERED.

                                                     s/Christian J. Moran
                                                     Christian J. Moran
                                                     Special Master

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          Pursuant to Vaccine Rule 11(a), the parties can expedite entry of judgment by each
party filing a notice renouncing the right to seek review by a United States Court of Federal
Claims judge.

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