Other conditions decisions — 2008

The veteran was denied service connection for residuals of a collapsed lung as there is no evidence that the condition is related to his military service.

The Board remands the claim for additional development to determine if the veteran has any current residual disabilities from an in-service heat exhaustion episode.

The Board denied service connection for beriberi, dysentery, and malaria as there is no evidence of a current disability or that the conditions were incurred in or aggravated by active service.

The Board denied the appellant's claim for restoration of DIC benefits as she remarried before reaching the age requirement set by the law.

The Board denied service connection for the cause of the veteran's death, finding no evidence that his chronic myelogenous leukemia due to acute lymphocytic leukemia was related to his military service.

The Board finds that the evidence is in relative equipoise as to whether the veteran's current loss of use of both feet is secondary to his service-connected residuals, L-1 fracture. Therefore, service connection for loss of use of both feet is granted.

The appeal is remanded to the RO for scheduling a hearing on the issue of apportionment of the veteran's nonservice-connected pension benefits.

The veteran's claim for competency status to handle VA funds was remanded for a field examination.

The appellant's application to be recognized as the child of the veteran for VA death benefit purposes was denied due to insufficient evidence.

The Board finds that the veteran's defective hearing was incurred in and as a result of service.

The veteran's appeal for an earlier effective date for increased evaluation of a left anterior shoulder dislocation has been remanded for the scheduling of a Travel Board hearing.

The veteran is entitled to reimbursement of the February 2005 Alabama State Bar examination fee.

The Board denied service connection for pneumonia and congestive heart failure as there is no competent evidence linking these conditions to the veteran's service.

The veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for the award of a TDIU was denied as there is no evidence that he met the criteria for the award prior to June 24, 2005.

The case was remanded for the RO to issue a VCAA notice letter regarding the claims and then review the evidence.

The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for aphasia, to include as secondary to service-connected residuals of a birdshot wound of the left scapula area, for further development.

The appeal was denied as there is no competent evidence of a current disability related to the veteran's subjective complaints of chest pain, and it cannot be linked to his service-connected paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.

The Board found that new and material evidence had not been submitted to establish legal entitlement to VA death benefits.

The Board granted service connection for residuals of cerebrovascular accident (CVA or stroke), to include as a residual of meningioma lesion, based on the medical opinion that the causal origin of such disability began during the veteran's period of military service.

The veteran's claim for payment or reimbursement for unauthorized medical expenses incurred at a private facility from April 4, 2005, to April 5, 2005, was denied because his condition had stabilized by April 3, 2005, and he could have been safely transferred to a VA facility.