Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2000

The Board found that the veteran's claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and a stomach disorder are not well grounded. The evidence did not support the presence of current disabilities or establish a link to military service.

The Board found no competent evidence associating any currently shown psychiatric disability to military service or to already service-connected disability, and thus denied the claim of service connection for a psychiatric disorder.

The Board has granted service connection for a psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, due to the submission of new and material evidence.

The Board found that the appellant's current acquired psychiatric disability is not related to his active military service and denied his claim for service connection.

The Board denied the appellant's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder in April 1991, finding no new and material evidence. The decision was based on a lack of nexus between the current disorder and any incident or event in service.

The Board found that the November 1996 rating decision was clearly and unmistakably erroneous in finding no new and material evidence to reopen a claim of service connection for residuals of a fall or jump from a roof secondary to service-connected paranoid schizophrenia. The Board also granted service connection for these residuals.

The Board has reopened the veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, other than PTSD, and finds that a current diagnosis of PTSD is established. The Board also finds that there is sufficient evidence to support the claim of service connection for PTSD.

The Board denied the veteran's claims regarding CUE in rating decisions and his entitlement to increased ratings for schizophrenia with dementia.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for a skin condition, fatigue, and a psychiatric disorder due to exposure to Agent Orange. The decision was based on the lack of evidence supporting these conditions during or after his military service.

The RO decisions denying service connection for a psychiatric disability from 1969 to 1984 are not subject to review for clear and unmistakable error. The veteran's claim of entitlement to an increased rating for Crohn's disease is being remanded due to the submission of additional evidence.

The Board has decided not to grant service connection for the veteran's psychiatric disorder and has ordered a Travel Board hearing to be scheduled.

The Board denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, concluding that the evidence did not support a finding of continuity of symptomatology since active service.

The Board denied service connection for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and found that the claim to reopen a previous psychiatric disorder was not supported by new and material evidence.

The VA denied the appellant's claim for service connection for a psychiatric disorder, finding no competent evidence or opinion that he had an acquired psychiatric disorder during service or currently has one related to service.

The Board found that the veteran's chronic acquired psychiatric disorder, including his variously diagnosed conditions such as bipolar disorder and panic attack disorder with obsessive-compulsive features, is related to his service. The rating assigned was 100% for total disability due to individual unemployability.

The Board denied the veteran's claim of entitlement to an effective date earlier than June 10, 1991, for a 100 percent evaluation for paranoid schizophrenia.

The veteran's current psychiatric disorder is at least as likely as not etiologically related and aggravated by his service-connected lumbar disability. The RO should issue a Statement of the Case on the issues of residuals of a fracture of the left fibula and trauma to the right knee.

The Board found no competent medical evidence to support a diagnosis of PTSD or a link between the veteran's current psychiatric symptoms and service, thus denying both claims.

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

The Board found that the veteran did not submit competent evidence to show plausible claims for service connection for a right elbow disability, a right shoulder disability, a right ankle disability, a low back disability, and a psychiatric disorder.