Epilepsy & seizure disorders decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claim for service connection for a seizure disability to include convulsive disorder, seizure disorder, and generalized tonic-clonic convulsions due to an inadequate VA medical opinion.

The Board denied a disability rating greater than 20 percent for focal epilepsy secondary to head trauma as the Veteran did not meet the criteria for a higher evaluation.

The Board remands the claim for an initial disability rating in excess of 40 percent for seizure disability to ensure that the Veteran is provided with proper notice regarding his right to a hearing before the agency of original jurisdiction.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for a seizure disorder, back disorder, and respiratory disorder to cure pre-decisional duty to assist errors.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for residuals of prostate cancer, arthrosclerosis (claimed as a heart condition), allergic rhinitis, depressive disorder, and complex partial seizures evolving to generalized seizure due to incomplete service treatment records and the need for additional evidence regarding in-service herbicide exposure.

The Board remands the issues of service connection for a seizure disorder, right shoulder disorder, and left shoulder disorder due to herbicide agent exposure and other toxic exposures for further development.

The Board granted service connection for thyroid cancer or residuals thereof, hypothyroidism, angioedema, parathyroid adenoma (also claimed as hypoparathyroid), seizure disorder, obstructive sleep apnea, and hypertension, all of which are secondary to the Veteran's service-connected thyroid cancer.

The Veteran's tonic clonic/grand mal seizures are service-connected, but an earlier effective date for the 70 percent rating of PTSD is denied, as well as increased ratings for PTSD and migraines. The TDIU claim was remanded.

The Board denied an earlier effective date for the award of service connection for occipital epilepsy and syncope, finding that October 20, 2014, is the earliest effective date assignable.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for a seizure condition and hypertension, to include as secondary to a seizure condition, due to inadequate medical opinions.

The Board granted an initial rating of 50 percent for headaches and increased the rating for seizures to 20 percent effective November 9, 2023.

The Board remands the claim for a seizure disorder to obtain an addendum opinion addressing whether the Veteran's service-connected headaches have aggravated his seizure disorder.

The Board grants service connection for a seizure disorder, finding that it was aggravated by the service-connected coronary artery disease status post myocardial infarction.

The Board granted an effective date of March 28, 2019, for service connection for a neurocognitive disorder, generalized seizure disorder, and tinnitus, all associated with TBI.

The Board denied an earlier effective date for the increased 80 percent rating for seizure disorder and a total disability based on individual unemployability (TDIU).

The Board granted service connection for a seizure disability from September 19, 2008, denied an increased rating for viral hepatitis B with cholelithiasis, cholecystitis, and cholecystectomy and pancreatitis, and granted a 70 percent rating for PTSD with unspecified depressive disorder from June 4, 2017 through July 30, 2017.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for an earlier effective date, a higher initial disability rating, and TDIU prior to August 26, 2022.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for service-connected aphasia and seizures, tonic clonic, as well as a claim for total disability based on individual unemployability (TDIU).

The Board remands the claim for service connection of memory loss (diagnosed as epilepsy) due to a motor vehicle accident because the medical opinion in the May 2023 rating decision was inadequate.

The Board granted an effective date of March 31, 2022, for the grant of service connection for psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (unstable) and a disability rating of 80 percent but no higher. The claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder was remanded.