Other conditions Board decisions

The veteran's hidradenitis suppurativa, currently rated at 10 percent, is now rated at 30 percent due to extensive scarring and symptoms in the axillary, groin, and buttocks areas.

The veteran's hearing loss is considered to be a disability due to acoustic trauma in service, and the Board has granted service connection for bilateral impaired hearing disability.

The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been submitted to reopen the veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of frozen feet and trench foot. The Board finds that these symptoms are as least as likely as not due to cold exposure during military service in Korea, rather than diabetes mellitus.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for arthritis of multiple joints, claimed as due to cold injury. The VA found that while the veteran served in Korea and had a history of cold exposure, there was no evidence linking his current arthritis to this exposure or any other incident during service.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for cubital tunnel syndrome, a tactile sensation (skin) disorder, and a perception-spatial coordination (eye) disorder as due to an undiagnosed illness. The appeals were based on the veteran's Persian Gulf War service.

The Board has determined that the veteran's right tentorial meningioma is presumed to be due to radiation exposure during service, and thus grants his claim for service connection.

The Board found no clear and unmistakable error in the 1971 decision denying service connection for depressive neurosis.

The Board found that the veteran's spinal cord infarction was not caused by VA treatment, and thus denied his claim under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151.

The Board denied the appellant's request for a waiver of recovery of an overpayment of improved death pension benefits in the amount of $1,820. The decision stated that recovery would not be against equity and good conscience due to the appellant's fault in creating the debt.

The Board found that the cause of the veteran's death, ventricular dysrhythmia due to ischemic cardiomyopathy and coronary atherosclerosis, was not incurred in or aggravated by active service. The Board also determined that there was no evidence linking the veteran's heart disease to his service-connected foot disabilities.

The Board denied an effective date earlier than March 16, 1999 for the grant of a 20 percent evaluation for service-connected ventral hernia.

The Board dismissed the appeal because the appellant died during the pendency of the appeal, and thus lost jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits of the claim.

The Board has granted service connection for the veteran's chronic lymphocytic leukemia, finding that it is a form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and thus warranting presumptive service connection due to Vietnam-era service.

The Board has determined that the veteran is not entitled to an increased evaluation for varicose veins of the left leg prior to January 12, 1998. Since then, he is not entitled to a rating in excess of 40 percent.

The Board denied the claim for service connection for colon cancer due to herbicide exposure, finding insufficient evidence linking the veteran's presumed Agent Orange exposure to his development of colon cancer.

The Board found that the overpayment was not due to fraud, misrepresentation or bad faith of the veteran. However, recovery of the $15,302.00 overpayment would be against equity and good conscience because it would unjustly enrich the veteran.

The Board has granted increased evaluations for the veteran's service-connected residuals of frozen feet, with a rating of 30 percent effective since January 12, 1998.

The veteran's PTSD is rated at a 10 percent evaluation, and he was granted temporary total disability ratings for hospitalization periods. However, the effective dates are not specified.

The veteran's disability from residuals of fracture of the right distal radius is manifested by limitation of wrist motion in all planes, with pain and reduced grip strength. The issue of a higher rating for this condition remains before the Board.

The Board denied the veteran's request to reopen his claim for service connection for a left leg condition, finding that new and material evidence had not been submitted.