Legal Opinion
John Cucuras and Maria Cucuras, Parents and Next Friends of Nicole Cucuras v. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided May 14, 1993No. 92-5172PublishedCited by 568 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RADER, Circuit Judge.
Petitioners, parents and next friends of Nicole Cucuras, appeal the United States Court of Federal Claims’ denial of compensation to Nicole under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. 42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-10 to 300aa-34 (1988 & Supp. III 1991). The Court of Federal Claims rejected petitioners’ claim that the special master erred by according greater weight to contemporaneous medical records than to later, conflicting oral testimony. Cucuras v. Secretary of Dep’t of Health & Human Servs., 26 Cl.Ct. 537, 542-43 (1992). The trial court also sustained the special…
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