Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2008

The Board has determined that the veteran's paranoid schizophrenia is related to his active military service and grants service connection for this condition. The issues of an initial compensable rating for adjustment disorder with anxiety and a total rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disability are remanded.

The Board has ordered a remand to verify the veteran's claimed stressor of Captain R.R.'s death and to readjudicate his service connection claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD.

The Board has determined that the veteran's psychiatric disorder and scars are not compensable under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 due to lack of evidence showing they were caused by carelessness, negligence, or similar instance of fault by VA medical personnel.

The Board has determined that the veteran does not have PTSD and therefore, service connection for PTSD is denied.

The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete records and a need for further examination.

The veteran's claim for service connection for schizophrenia is being remanded due to the need for additional VA records and possibly a psychiatric examination.

The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been presented to reopen the veteran's claims for service connection for schizophrenia, chronic, undifferentiated type; depression endogenous (claimed as a nervous disorder) to include as secondary to service connected diabetes mellitus type II, hearing loss, and otitis media.

The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been submitted to reopen the veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for a mental disorder, as the additional evidence does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim.

The Board has reopened the veteran's claim for service connection for psychiatric disorder, claimed as adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depression. The case is remanded to obtain additional medical records and for further development.

The Board has determined that the veteran did not submit new and material evidence to reopen his claim of service connection for a psychiatric disorder, as the provided evidence does not establish a current disability or link it to service.

The VA Regional Office (RO) has remanded the case due to a request for a travel board hearing. The appellant's claim for service connection for psychiatric disability remains pending.

The VA determined that the veteran's claimed acquired psychiatric disorder, not including PTSD, was not incurred or aggravated during his military service and denied the claim.

The veteran's additional physical disability, including right C5-6 cervical radiculopathy and psychiatric disorder, is not deemed to be the result of carelessness, negligence, lack of proper skill, error in judgment or similar instance of fault by VA. The Board finds that there was no event not reasonably foreseeable.

The Board found that the veteran's cervical spine disability was not incurred in or aggravated by service, nor is it otherwise related to service. The claim for service connection for a psychiatric disability, including PTSD and depression as secondary to service-connected low back disability, is remanded.

The Board denied service connection for schizophrenia in February 1968, finding that the condition did not manifest within two years of separation and was not related to service. The veteran's motion alleging clear and unmistakable error (CUE) was denied as there was no evidence demonstrating CUE.

The Board has granted service connection for a psychiatric disorder, including PTSD and bipolar disorder, due to new evidence submitted by the veteran. The claim for GERD was denied as there is no current diagnosis of GERD in the record. Service connection for irritable bowel syndrome was also denied. The veteran's claim for compensation under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 for psychiatric disability including PTSD and bipolar disorder was granted, with a rating of 100 percent effective from the date of her original claim. The issue of a rating in excess of 30 percent for right shoulder and chest strain (major extremity) remains pending.

The Board has remanded the case to the RO for additional development, including obtaining SSA records and adjudicating the peripheral neuropathy claim. The primary issue is service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection due to failure to report for VA examinations and lack of verified in-service stressor, as well as insufficient evidence of a psychosis within one year after separation from active service.

The veteran seeks an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for paranoid schizophrenia. The Board denied this claim, finding that the earliest possible effective date is October 22, 2004.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for the award of service connection for schizophrenia, finding that his free-standing claim was barred as a matter of law.