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

ORDER

BRUGGINK, Judge.

This action comes before the court on the remand opinion of the Special Master. Further briefing is deemed unnecessary. For the reasons which follow, the opinion below is sustained.

The original opinion of the Special Master, 1991 WL 20054, concluded that a hypo-tonic-hyporesponsive (“HHE”) collapse occurred, and that “[s]ince there is no dispute that these events took place within seventy-two hours of the receipt of the vaccine and since there is neither evidence nor indication of an alternative cause within the meaning of the statute, compensability is established.” This…