Legal Opinion
Porter v. Secretary of Health and Human Services
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided November 22, 2011No. 19-2011PublishedCited by 320 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PROST, Circuit Judge.
The government appeals the combined decision of the United States Court of Federal Claims (“Claims Court”) reversing a special master’s decision denying Mona Porter’s and Claudia Rotoli’s petitions for compensation under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (“Vaccine Act”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-l to -34. The special master concluded that Ms. Porter and Ms. Rotoli did not prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the hepatitis B vaccine — which they both received in three doses in the 1990s — caused them to suffer autoimmune hepatitis (“AIH”). The Claims…
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