COPD Board decisions

The Board has granted service connection for heart disease as secondary to COPD and assigned a 50 percent evaluation for sinusitis effective from July 2, 1991.

The Board denied the appellant's request for waiver of an overpayment of improved disability pension benefits due to his willful failure to disclose a material fact (his wife's income and SSA disability benefits) with intent to retain eligibility.

The Board has determined that the veteran's claim for an effective date prior to June 2, 1997 for a grant of service connection for COPD is granted.

The VA has granted a higher initial rating of 70 percent for PTSD, and an initial compensable rating (10%) for athlete's foot. The respiratory disease claim remains at 60 percent.

The Board has restored the veteran's service connection for COPD with bronchitis, but denied his claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.

The veteran's claims for service connection for colon cancer, renal cancer, and COPD as secondary to exposure to herbicides or asbestos were denied. The Board found that the conditions did not have their onset in service or are otherwise related to service.

The Board has determined that the veteran's service-connected coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, and diabetes contributed to his death from lung cancer.

The Board has determined that the veteran's COPD is related to mustard gas exposure during service, and thus granted his claim for service connection.

The Board has determined that the veteran's chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is due to nicotine dependence in service, and thus grants service connection for this condition.

The veteran's claim for service connection for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with pneumonia is denied as it falls within the scope of newly amended law set forth at 38 U.S.C.A. § 1103, which prohibits service connection for a disability resulting from an injury or disease attributable to the use of tobacco products during active service.

The Board dismissed the veteran's appeal due to a lack of timely filing of a substantive appeal for issues related to service connection.

The Board is remanding the case to determine if the cause of the veteran's death, COPD, was related to asbestos exposure during his service in the United States Navy.

The VA determined that the veteran's COPD does not warrant a rating higher than 10 percent, based on his pulmonary function test results.

The Board found that the cause of the veteran's death was not due to mustard gas exposure during service and did not establish a direct link between his emphysema and military service.

Your appeal to service connection for COPD has been dismissed because a timely Substantive Appeal was not filed within the required time frame.

The Board denied the veteran's claims of service connection for dengue fever and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, finding that new and material evidence had not been submitted to reopen these claims.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for COPD, finding that it was not well grounded. The decision is based on the fact that smoking began in service and there is no evidence of nicotine dependence or other disease incurred during service.

The Board found no evidence to support the veteran's claim of service connection for COPD and denied his request for a compensable evaluation for residuals of hemorrhagic fever. The RO has maintained a noncompensable disability rating since April 1958.

The Board has granted a 30% rating for the service-connected COPD from June 25, 1991 through November 4, 1998.

The veteran withdrew their appeal before the Board could make a decision.