Other conditions Board decisions

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for an eye disorder, finding that there is no current diagnosis of such a condition.

The Board has decided to remand the claim for payment or reimbursement of medical services provided by Emergency Medicine Specialists on May 7, 2018 due to a lack of adequate notice and incomplete record. The appellant must provide any decision letters and EOBs received from VA, as well as relevant VHA records dated after October 2018.

The Board has decided to remand the case due to inadequate medical opinions and pre-decisional duty to assist errors. The Veteran's service connection claim for head injury, including neurological/brain disorders, is being remanded for further examination and opinion.

The appeal was dismissed because the appellant died during the pendency of the appeal and there is no jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits of this case.

The Veteran's benefits were properly adjusted during his incarceration and restored to their pre-incarceration levels effective the date of his release. The appeal is denied.

The Veteran's appeal for a special apportionment from his VA disability compensation benefits to K.R., on behalf of their child, C.S., is dismissed because the Veteran died during the pendency of the appeal.

The Veteran's additional disabilities of left lower extremity disfiguration, muscle loss, drop foot, and nerve injuries are being remanded due to the VA Medical Center in Wyoming, Michigan discontinuing his Warfarin for a colonoscopy with polypectomy in January 2018. The Board will review the care provided by VA.

The Veteran's neck disorder is found to have begun during service and the Board grants service connection for this condition.

The Veteran's attorney was granted eligibility to receive fees based on past-due benefits awarded in an August 2023 decision for adding dependents to his disability compensation award. The appeal is remanded for a determination of the reasonableness of these fees.

The Board has decided to remand the Veteran's claims for service connection for left leg disability and left drop foot due to errors in duty to assist. The claims will be reviewed again with proper consideration of the evidence.

The Board has found new and relevant evidence that the Veteran's death was due to a service-connected disability prior to August 13, 1981. As such, the claim for special allowance benefits under REPS is granted.

The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient evidence regarding the etiology of the Veteran's claimed chronic microangiopathic disease, including a lack of a VA examination.

The Board found that the overpayment of $1,893.97 was due to sole administrative error on the part of VA and dismissed the Veteran's claim for a waiver of recovery.

The appeal was dismissed because the VA approved payment of non-VA medical services provided on March 14, 2020.

The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for loss of left leg and injury to right leg as secondary to PTSD with associated major depression, based on evidence showing a 'dissociative event' related to service-connected PTSD at the time of the motorcycle accident.

The Board has dismissed the appeal as the episodes of care for non-VA medical services provided on October 28, 2019, and October 29, 2019, were approved and paid by VHA.

The Veteran's death was not due to his own willful misconduct, but the Board is unable to determine if his laryngeal cancer was caused by service-connected exposure at Camp Lejeune. The cause of death may also be related to eye drops used for a long time for his service-connected bilateral eye disability.

Your appeal has been dismissed because you requested to withdraw it before the Board made a decision.

The appeal is dismissed because the RO's decision on the character of discharge has been rendered moot by a subsequent administrative decision.

The Board has decided to remand the case due to inadequate medical opinion regarding the etiology of the Veteran's right hip replacement, specifically whether it is proximately due to or caused by a service-connected disability, including left hip DJD.