Anxiety Board decisions

The veteran's claim for service connection for a psychiatric disorder is being remanded due to the need for further examination and development of his VA outpatient records.

The Board has remanded the case due to a need for additional development, including obtaining a medical opinion regarding whether any service-connected conditions contributed to the veteran's death.

The Board denied the veteran's claims regarding the propriety of reducing his anxiety reaction rating from 30% to 10%, as well as his entitlement to increased ratings for both his anxiety reaction and allergic rhinitis with maxillary sinusitis.

The Board has granted service connection for the cause of the veteran's death, attributing it to coronary thrombosis. The effective date is set at June 11, 1982, based on new and material evidence submitted by the appellant.

The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including obtaining Social Security Administration records and VA treatment records. The veteran is also to be scheduled for a VA psychiatric examination.

The Board denied service connection for the cause of the veteran's death in May 1982, concluding that there was no evidence showing a causal relationship between his service-connected conditions and his death.

The Board has granted a 100% rating for service-connected psychoneurosis anxiety effective January 8, 2001. This decision is based on the earliest evidence of criteria for such a rating being met.

The Board denied service connection for generalized anxiety disorder and residuals of urinary tract infection, finding that the veteran's current conditions did not pre-exist or begin during his military service.

The Board has remanded the case for further medical opinions regarding whether the veteran's service-connected anxiety disorder contributed to his death.

The Board denied the appellant's claim for service connection for cause of death, finding that the veteran's death was not caused by any event in service or his service-connected anxiety disorder.

The veteran is seeking an earlier effective date for a 100 percent rating for his service-connected anxiety neurosis, which was awarded on March 30, 2001. The RO has determined that the claim was filed on March 30, 2001.

The Board found that the veteran's death was not caused by or related to his service-connected anxiety neurosis, and thus denied the claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death.

The Board denied the appellant's claims of service connection for diabetes mellitus Type II and vertigo, as well as his attempts to reopen claims for cataracts, burns on the left side of the face, anxiety with insomnia, hypertension with cardiac distress, and a kidney disorder. The Board found that new evidence did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating these claims.

The Board has remanded the case for further development, including obtaining medical records and arranging for examinations to assess the severity of the veteran's service-connected lumbosacral strain with degenerative arthritis and a herniated nucleus pulposus at L3-L4. The issue of entitlement to an increased rating for anxiety state is also being remanded.

The Board found that the veteran's service-connected conditions did not cause his death, and no other condition was shown to have contributed substantially or materially to his death. The cause of death listed on his certificate was acute myocardial infarction due to coronary artery disease.

The Board denied service connection for PTSD but granted a 30% evaluation for generalized anxiety disorder, effective from the date of receipt of the claim.

The Board has granted a total disability rating for compensation based on individual unemployability, effective from March 24, 1998. The veteran's anxiety disorder is the sole service-connected condition considered in this decision.

The Board denied the veteran's claim of service connection for an anxiety disorder, concluding that new and material evidence had not been submitted to reopen his previously denied claim.

The Board found that the October 1994 rating decision assigning an effective date of March 9, 1990 for the grant of service connection for an acquired anxiety disorder was the product of CUE and the correct effective date should be February 24, 1982.,The Board also found that the October 1994 rating decision assigning an effective date of March 9, 1990 for the grant of a TDIU was not the product of CUE.

The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete development and requests for additional information from the appellant, as well as further examination and review of her medical records.