Client With Severe Sirva Injury Awarded Near Record Damages for Pain and Suffering

 Posted on July 17, 2025 in Vaccine Injuries

Our firm is pleased to report that Kraus Law Group partner, Brynna Gang, recently secured a substantial damages award for a client that suffered a life-changing SIRVA injury.

Our client, a healthy, active person and parent of a young child, suffered a severe SIRVA injury following a flu vaccination in 2017. Over the next eight years, she struggled with a protracted, painful, and debilitating SIRVA injury. Her treatment course ultimately involved many steroid injections, medication management, a year of weekly lidocaine infusions to try to manage her chronic pain, many sessions of physical therapy, and ultimately, four surgical interventions. While her final surgical procedure brought her some much-needed pain relief, she struggled with ongoing deficits.

This case required years of thorough attorney work, including drafting memoranda arguing for the presiding Special Master to make a judicial finding that the flu vaccine caused our client’s SIRVA injury after the Secretary of Health and Human Services (respondent), represented by attorneys at the Department of Justice (DOJ), argued that the flu vaccination was unrelated to our client’s SIRVA injury. Ultimately, the Special Master found in our client’s favor and held that the flu vaccine had indeed triggered her significant and life changing SIRVA injury.

After this finding was made, Ms. Gang worked to develop the evidence of our client’s damages, and ultimately, the parties were able to resolve damages. Our client’s damages award includes compensation figures for her pain and suffering that are among the highest pain and suffering figures ever awarded in a SIRVA case in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

Our client was awarded a lump sum of $247,758.43.

That included:

• $215,000 for her past pain and suffering;

• $35,000 for her future pain and suffering (reduced to net present value); and 

• $4,186.18 as reimbursement for her out-of-pocket expenses 

We are very pleased to have secured our client the significant damages her SIRVA injury warranted.

While this is a representative case, and not a guarantee of success, it emphasizes that these cases involve careful preparation, management and ardent advocacy.

It is important to work with attorneys that have the experience to litigate and steer a case through the program from start-to-finish. At Kraus Law Group, that’s a skill we’ve developed over our almost 2 decades of representing clients in the VICP.  

If you, or a family member, have experienced a SIRVA injury, we are happy to speak with you to see if we can help. You can reach us at 312-858-2177.