Campbell v. Secretary of Health & Human Services

OPINION

ALLEGRA, Judge.

Taylor Marie Campbell and her parents seek review of a decision rejecting their vaccine injury claims under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-10 et seq. (the Vaccine Act). Because the court concludes that the procedures employed by the Special Master were fundamentally unfair, and that her rulings are either inadequately explained or arbitrary and capricious, it remands this matter for further proceedings.

I. Background

The facts necessary to this ruling relate primarily to the procedures employed below and briefly are stated…