Posted on June 02, 2025 in Vaccine Injuries

After years of advocacy, we are pleased to report that one of our long-time client’s was recently awarded compensation that will allow her to have the support she needs for the rest of her life.

Our client developed a seizure disorder following her 9-month-old vaccinations.  After multiple seizures, some requiring hospitalization, she was diagnosed with epilepsy and global developmental delay after her family witnessed developmental regression.

We filed a case in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) alleging that the vaccines our client received triggered her seizure disorder which ultimately led to, and/or worsened, her developmental regression and delay.

Initially, the Special Master (a/k/a Judge) denied our client’s case, and attorney Ed Kraus appealed the decision, arguing that the special master had made legal errors in deciding the case.

Ultimately, that appeal was successful and in a prior blog post, we discussed that our client has been found entitled to compensation, meaning that she would receive the funding necessary for her to be supported throughout her life. You can read about that here.

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 Posted on April 28, 2025 in Vaccine Information

Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is a neurologic syndrome in which a person’s immune system attacks the nerves. Symptoms can include weakness, numbness and an ascending paralysis. Guillain-Barre syndrome is a serious condition and medical intervention in vital. 

While the trigger for GBS is not entirely known, there has been an association with vaccination, particularly the seasonal flu vaccination. 

In the 1970’s, the US government mounted a mass vaccination campaign designed to vaccinate adults against specific influenza strains. The campaign was suspended when an increased number of GBS cases was observed and after a surveillance period, it was discovered that there was an increased risk of developing GBS in the weeks following receipt of the flu vaccination. This evidence of association was only possible because of the large numbers of persons that were vaccinated in a short time period, which made the pattern easier to discern. 

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 Posted on March 12, 2025 in Vaccine Injuries

In 2016, Kraus Law Group, LLC, filed a Petition in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program on behalf of a woman who developed a life-threatening lung disease following a flu vaccination.

Our client received a flu shot in 2014, just before she came down with a respiratory virus. Unfortunately, the impact of the immune response she mounted to that virus, while also responding to the flu vaccination led to scarring in the lining of her lungs that caused breathing difficulties, a chronic condition known as bronchiolitis obliterans.

After filing the case, our team, led by founding partner, Ed Kraus, retained an expert immunologist who testified at an in-person hearing held in Washington, D.C. in 2020.

In a decision from 2023, the presiding Special Master found that the flu vaccination played a pivotal role in the development of our client’s lung disease and found her entitled to compensation.

While the decision by the Special Master meant that our client was eligible to receive compensation for her life-changing vaccine injury, securing the compensation she needed to ensure she had lifelong support was another battle.

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 Posted on February 19, 2025 in Vaccine Information

With the start of a new year, Kraus Law Group, LLC, promoted vaccine injury attorney, Brynna Gang, to Partner.

Ms. Gang joined the firm as an attorney in 2020 and since then has zealously represented individuals injured by vaccines in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), adding her energy, skill and commitment to the vibrant culture of the firm.

Ms. Gang's interest in the VICP began when she was a student at Chicago-Kent College of Law where she participated in one of only two legal clinics in the country that represented people in the VICP. That clinic was created and directed by Kraus Law Group founding member, Professor Ed Kraus, and staffed by attorney Amy Kraus. It was while studying in that clinic that Ms. Gang realized that working on behalf of vaccine injured petitioners was her passion.

After graduating and becoming a licensed attorney, Ms. Gang gained valuable advocacy and litigation experience in other areas of law, including Social Security Disability and Medical Malpractice defense, but always had the primary goal of returning to work on behalf of petitioners in the VICP. When an opportunity arose to work with the Krauses first at Chicago Kent, and then at the Kraus Law Group, Ms. Gang enthusiastically joined the team.

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 Posted on January 29, 2025 in Vaccine Information

With the nomination of Robert Kennedy, Jr., as the next Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), vaccine policy is expected to take a starring role in the confirmation hearings.

The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) is a federal compensation program designed to compensate individuals injured by covered vaccinations. While the Program was initially established by Congress in 1986, the Department of Health and Human Services plays a critical role in the VICP.

When a case is filed in the VICP, the Department of Health and Human Services is listed as the respondent. As the head of that department, the Secretary of Health and Human Services is named in every case filed in the VICP.

In addition to being the respondent, HHS also functions as an administrator of the VICP, for example, proposing modifications to the Vaccine Injury Table. With these important functions, the Secretary of Health and Human Services plays an important role in how the VICP works and the Secretary is in a position to make meaningful changes to the VICP.

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 Posted on November 02, 2023 in Vaccine Injuries

As we head into the third year of Covid-19 vaccinations being offered to the public, differing viewpoints have emerged as to how to address compensation for individuals injured by Covid-19 vaccinations.

Recently, a lawsuit was filed against the agency within the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services that handles Covid-19 vaccine injury claims. The litigation alleges that the vaccine program handling Covid-19 vaccine injuries is unconstitutional.

The Vaccine Injured Petitioner’s (VIP) Bar Association provides education and advocacy for the representatives of individuals injured by vaccinations. KLG attorneys, Ed Kraus, Amy Kraus, and Brynna Gang are members of the VIP Bar and KLG founding partner, Ed Kraus, is also on the Board of Directors.

As attorneys that practice only in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, we understand the unique challenges faced by an individual injured by a vaccination.

The VIP Bar recently issued a press release which urges that Covid-19 vaccination injury claims be processed in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and discusses the recent litigation related to the current program in which Covid-19 vaccination injuries are being reviewed.

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 Posted on October 19, 2023 in Vaccine Injuries

Almost three years after the introduction of Covid-19 vaccines, two Bills (H.R 5142 and H.R.5143) introduced in the House of Representatives aim to make significant changes to the way injuries from Covid-19 vaccinations are handled.

Currently, injuries suspected to stem from Covid-19 vaccinations are handled in a program called the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP). You can find our blog about that program, and its differences compared to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) here.

A major drawback of the CICP is the short one-year statute of limitations which requires that claims be filed within a year of vaccination.

Importantly, no later than sixty (60) days after the Bill’s passage, the Secretary of Health & Human Services (HHS) would need to form regulations to add Covid-19 vaccines to the Vaccine Injury Table. This would effectively add Covid-19 vaccination injuries to the VICP, a program that is significantly friendlier to the injured petitioner and provides for greater categories of compensation, including pain and suffering (which is not a source of damages in the CICP).

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 Posted on June 19, 2023 in Vaccine Information

Kraus Law Group, LLC recently prevailed in securing entitlement to compensation in a case involving an infant girl who developed a seizure disorder shortly after her 9-month-old vaccinations.

Our client, the mother of the child, took her daughter to the emergency room for a significant febrile seizure shortly after her vaccinations. While her daughter initially appeared to recover, her mother noticed that in the weeks after this initial seizure, her baby began acting strangely remote and she seemed to lose developmental milestones that she had previously attained.

A second febrile seizure occurred shortly thereafter. Ultimately, this little girl developed epilepsy and global developmental delays such that she will require complex medical care and constant supervision for the rest of her life.

After litigating this case in the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), The trial judge (known as Special Master in the VICP) denied entitlement, asserting that our client had not established that her daughter’s vaccinations caused the subsequent epilepsy and severe developmental delays.

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 Posted on April 06, 2023 in Vaccine Injuries

Shoulder soreness following vaccination is commonly experienced, but not all post- vaccination shoulder pain, particularly if severe, is normal. In the mid 2000’s, two physicians published an article about severe, chronic shoulder pain triggered in two patients by their recent vaccinations. A few years later, another piece of medical literature used the acronym SIRVA, or Shoulder Injury Related to Vaccine Administration, for the first time to refer to these post-vaccination injuries.

SIRVA refers to a set of medical conditions impacting a shoulder following vaccination and can include bursitis, tendinitis, rotator cuff tearing, and adhesive capsulitis, among others.  While some individuals experience mild symptoms with a good recovery within a few months, for others, SIRVA injuries may be persistent and require medical interventions like physical therapy, cortisone injections, or even surgery. While the exact mechanism of SIRVA injures is unknown, it is suspected to be caused by improper vaccination administration technique and/or by the inflammatory response triggered by vaccination.

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 Posted on January 26, 2023 in Vaccine Injuries

Guillain-Barre syndrome, also known as GBS, is a rare condition in which an individual’s own immune system attacks their nerve endings. While there are different subvariants of GBS, the hallmark symptoms of the condition include weakness, numbness, tingling and for some individuals, paralysis. Fatigue is also often reported. More information about GBS can be found here.

The association between GBS and vaccination was initially suspected after a large-scale influenza vaccination effort in 1976 revealed an increased signal of GBS among the vaccinated population. Subsequent studies confirmed an association between GBS and the 1976 flu vaccination efforts.

While vaccine induced GBS is still considered a rare event, the association with flu vaccines is well established. As a result of this association, GBS is listed as a Table injury in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). As a Table injury, if a person who receives the vaccine (referred to as the “petitioner”) can establish that they developed GBS within 3-42 days of receiving the vaccination, then the injured person is likely to receive compensation.

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