Legal Opinion

Cloer v. Secretary of Health and Human Services

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Decided May 6, 2010No. 2009-5052PublishedCited by 24 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MICHEL, Chief Judge.

Petitioner-appellant Melissa Cloer, M.D., appeals the decision of the United States Court of Federal Claims. Cloer v. Sec’y of Health & Human Servs., 85 Fed.Cl. 141 (2008). The decision affirmed the Chief Special Master’s report, which denied Dr. Cloer’s petition for compensation under the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (“Vaccine Program”) established by the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-1 to -34 (“Vaccine Act”), because it was time-barred. See Cloer v. Sec’y of Dep’t of Health & Human Servs., No. 05-1002V (Fed.Cl. May 15, 2008).

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