Acquired psychiatric disorder Board decisions

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.

The veteran's paranoid schizophrenia is currently rated at 70 percent since April 20, 1999. The condition has been productive of severe industrial impairment.

The Board found no evidence of an acquired psychiatric disorder related to active service or manifest within one year of discharge, and thus denied the veteran's claim for service connection.

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

The veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities is denied because the schedular 100 percent rating for his service-connected psychiatric disability (schizophrenia) has remained in effect since March 1978 and cannot be reduced.

The Board has determined that the veteran became permanently and totally disabled due to service-connected schizophrenia on April 18, 1990, and granted a permanent and total disability rating effective from that date.

The Board has determined that the veteran's current diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia is related to her military service, specifically her period of active duty in 1985.

The Board has determined that the veteran's claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability and a pulmonary disorder are not well grounded. Therefore, her appeals have been denied.

The Board denied the veteran's claims of service connection for a lung disability, psychiatric disorder, residuals of broken ribs, and low back disability. The decision found that there was no competent evidence linking these conditions to active service or military service.

The Board found that the appellant did not submit new and material evidence to reopen his claim for service connection of a psychiatric disability, as the submitted evidence does not establish the onset or aggravation of such condition during service.

The Board denied the veteran's application to reopen his claim for service connection for a psychiatric disability, finding that the new evidence submitted was not material.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for loss of vision, bilateral hearing loss, acquired psychiatric disorder, diabetes mellitus, low back disorder, left knee disorder, right elbow disorder, and arteriosclerotic heart disease. The appeals were not well-grounded.

The Board has remanded the case for additional development due to new evidence received after a December 1997 Supplemental Statement of the Case.

The veteran's appeal is to determine if the July 1980 rating decision denying service connection for a psychiatric disability was clearly and unmistakably erroneous. The Board has remanded the case back to the RO for further development.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for a 100 percent rating for service-connected schizophrenia, finding that there was no evidence of increased severity within one year prior to his October 23, 1989 claim.