Other conditions decisions — 2022

The Veteran's PCAFC eligibility is remanded due to errors in the original decision and a need for clarification of his personal care needs.

The Veteran's HIV has been granted a 100% rating, and he is also in receipt of SMC. The TDIU claim was dismissed as moot due to the existing ratings for his conditions.

The Board has granted service connection for nosebleeds, finding that the condition was incurred during active duty training and is related to service.

The Veteran's claim for compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 is granted because the evidence shows that VA failed to diagnose or treat his preexisting stomach cancer, which resulted in a terminal stage of the condition.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim as his Notice of Disagreement (NOD) was not timely filed within one year after receiving the March 2016 rating decision, and thus the appeal is dismissed.

The Board has decided to remand the case due to inadequate VA examination reports, and further development is required.

The Board has remanded the claims for service connection due to insufficient medical opinions and a need for further examination. The Veteran seeks service connection for UTIs, voiding dysfunction, and BPH, all related to his service-connected psychiatric disabilities.

The Board has decided to remand the case due to a duty-to-assist error and additional research is needed. The Veteran's bowel resection surgery for colon cancer with loss of intestines is being reviewed.

The Veteran withdrew his appeal for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) before the scheduled hearing and decision was made.

The Board has granted service connection for liver cancer as due to presumed exposure to Agent Orange during the Veteran's active duty in Vietnam, resolving all reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran.

The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient information in the VA opinion regarding whether intraoperative floppy iris syndrome is a foreseeable risk of cataract surgery and whether the use of Flomax prior to surgery was due to VA fault or negligence.

The Veteran's service did not meet the threshold eligibility for a non-service-connected pension under the law because he had less than 90 days of active service during a period of war.

The Board has remanded the cases due to issues with the termination and reduction of nonservice-connected pension benefits effective October 1, 2010, and the addition of dependents to the Veteran's award. The appellant is required to submit additional evidence or arguments.

The Board has decided to remand the case due to an inadequate examination, and a new VA medical opinion is needed to determine if the Veteran's bursitis is related to his service.

The Board has remanded the case due to issues related to verifying the appellant's service, as his periods of active duty and ACDUTRA are unclear. The claim for nonservice-connected pension benefits is currently pending.

The Veteran's service-connected bilateral knee disabilities were rated at 10 percent from August 6, 2010, to October 26, 2017. The Board denied entitlement to higher ratings for the period on appeal.

The Veteran's cause of death was listed as liver failure and metastatic gastric cancer. The Board denied the claim for service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death, finding that his liver failure and metastatic gastric cancer did not have onset during his military service, were not etiologically related to service, including exposure to herbicide agents, and were not secondary to service-connected diabetes mellitus.

The Veteran's claims for higher ratings for residuals of right and left foot injuries, as well as separate ratings for hallux valgus in both feet and hammertoes bilaterally, were denied. The effective dates for the grants of service connection for these conditions are December 16, 2002.

The Veteran's service connection claim for muscle and joint pain (chronic pain syndrome) is denied as there is no evidence of a qualifying chronic disability that became manifest during his active duty service in Southwest Asia. The Board also found the Veteran unemployable due to his service-connected disabilities, but not because of his claimed Gulf War illness.

The Board has remanded the claims for right elbow disability due to a lack of proper range of motion testing in previous examinations. The Veteran's increased rating claims will be reconsidered after further examination.