O'Connell v. Secretary of Health & Human Services

OPINION

HEWITT, Judge.

Petitioner, appearing pro se, seeks review in the United States Court of Federal Claims of a special master’s dismissal of petitioner’s Petition for Compensation (Petition) under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (Vaccine Act or Act), 42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-l to -25 (2000). In a decision filed May 28, 2004, the special master noted that petitioner’s claim, which alleged that a rubella vaccine caused his chronic arthritis,1 was initiated more than one year after the 36-month statutory deadline for filing his Petition had expired. O’Connell v. Sec’y of Health &…