Acquired psychiatric disorder Board decisions

The Board has determined that the veteran's schizophrenia is related to his service, and thus grants entitlement to service connection.

The Board found that the veteran's claims for service connection were not well-grounded and denied them.

The Board found that the veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder was not incurred in service and denied his claim.

The Board has determined that the veteran's claims for service connection for asthma, a bilateral ankle disorder, and a psychiatric disorder (including PTSD) are not well grounded. The evidence does not support a finding of current disabilities or a link to service.

The Board granted an earlier effective date of July 28, 1988 for the award of service connection for schizophrenia and denied an earlier effective date for residuals of enucleation of the right eye.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection due to lack of new and material evidence.

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.