Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2000

The Board has granted a 30% rating for the veteran's service-connected low back disability, finding that his overall lumbar motion is not more than moderately restricted. The claim for secondary service connection for psychiatric disability was found to be not well grounded.

The Board denied the veteran's attempt to reopen his claim for service connection for schizophrenia, finding that no new and material evidence had been submitted.

The Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) found that the March 1987 rating decision reducing the evaluation for service-connected psychiatric disability from 100 to 70 percent disabling did not involve clear and unmistakable error. The veteran's appeal was denied.

The Board found that the veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, specifically schizophrenia, may be presumed to have been incurred during the first year following his discharge from service.

The veteran's claim for an increased rating for schizophrenia is being remanded due to the need for additional medical examination and information.

The Board determined that the veteran's schizophrenia is service-connected, but denied his claim for compensation under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 due to lack of new and material evidence.

The Board has remanded the case due to the need for additional development, including informing the veteran of the importance of his private medical records and scheduling a hearing before a traveling Member of the Board.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a psychiatric disability, finding it not plausible. The claim for a compensable rating for duodenal ulcer was granted but at the lowest possible evaluation.

The Board has determined that the claim of entitlement to service connection for schizophrenia is not well-grounded and therefore denied.

The VA denied the veteran's claim of service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD, due to a lack of verified stressors related to service and insufficient evidence supporting a diagnosis of PTSD.

The veteran's claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and PTSD have been denied as his claim is not well grounded, and the evidence submitted since the last denial does not present new and material evidence to reopen the PTSD claim.

The Board has determined that the veteran's asthma claim is not well-grounded, while his psychiatric disorder claim is well-grounded. The case will be remanded to further develop facts pertinent to the psychiatric disorder claim.

The Board denied the veteran's request for an earlier effective date for his service-connected paranoid schizophrenia, determining that the earliest date of claim was March 10, 1997.

The Board found that the submitted evidence was not new and material, thus denying the reopening of the claim for service connection for a psychiatric disorder.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for PTSD and schizophrenia, finding that the evidence was not well-grounded for PTSD and that new and material evidence had not been submitted to reopen the claim for schizophrenia.

The Board has denied reopening claims for service connection for various conditions, including back disability, dizziness, and eye disabilities. The evidence received since the 1976 decisions is not considered new and material to reopen these claims.

The Board of Veterans' Appeals has denied the veteran's claim for service connection for schizophrenia, finding that there is no medical evidence linking his current diagnosis to his military service.

The Board has found that the veteran's claim is well-grounded and granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD. The evidence supports a diagnosis of PTSD based on alleged sexual harassment during military training school.

The Board found no competent medical evidence linking any current psychiatric disability to the appellant's military service, and thus denied his claim for service connection.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for a chronic lung disorder and a psychiatric disorder, finding that these conditions were not due to disease or injury in service.