Tompkins v. Secretary of Health and Human Services

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• finding that a settlement agreement lacking the signature of the authorized representative of the Attorney General was not legally enforceable, and affirming that the special master lacked the authority to enforce the preliminary settlement
• rejecting a petitioner’s reliance on vaccine package insert information as indicative of alleged vaccine causation
• rejecting a petitioner’s reliance on vaccine package insert information as indicative of alleged vaccine causation
• rejecting a petitioner’s reliance on vaccine package insert information as indicative of alleged vaccine causation
• finding petitioner failed to establish by preponderant evidence that Tdap vaccine caused his GBS, and respondent proved upper respiratory tract infection as sole cause of the GBS
• The data provided by VAERS does not illustrate a causal connection; rather VAERS exists to identify signals to prompt further scientific investigation into potentially rare serious adverse events

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