Murphy v. Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services

OPINION

NETTESHEIM, Judge.

This case is before the court on petitioners’ motion for review of a special master’s dismissal of their petition for compensation brought under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-l—300aa-34 (1988), as amended by several public laws codified in 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 300aa-l—300aa-34 (West Supp.1991) (“the Act”). The issues upon review are whether the special master’s denial of petitioners’ motion for an eviden-tiary hearing, his interpretation of what constitutes “significant aggravation” of a seizure disorder, and his findings were…