The Board has determined that the veteran incurred additional disability as a result of VA's failure to initially diagnose and promptly treat a cerebral hemorrhage in March 1994, warranting compensation under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports the veteran's claim for compensation due to the failure to timely diagnose and treat his cerebral hemorrhage resulting in additional disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Cerebral Hemorrhage
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- June 9, 2003
- Citation
- 0312026
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,419 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a brain disorder, to include residuals of head trauma and cerebral hemorrhage. The Board found that there was no evidence linking these conditions to his active service.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's cause of death was a cerebral hemorrhage, and hypertension was a contributory cause. The Board found that the Veteran’s hypertension was aggravated by his service-connected PTSD and caused by herbicide exposure, granting service connection for the cause of death.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims of service connection for Traumatic Brain Injury, Cerebral Hemorrhage, and Bilateral Hearing Loss. The decision found no credible evidence supporting these conditions or a link to service.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran's death was not caused by a service-connected condition, and therefore denied his claim for service connection for the cause of his death.
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