The Board granted service connection for a seizure disability from September 19, 2008, denied an increased rating for viral hepatitis B with cholelithiasis, cholecystitis, and cholecystectomy and pancreatitis, and granted a 70 percent rating for PTSD with unspecified depressive disorder from June 4, 2017 through July 30, 2017.
The deciding factor: The evidence was at least in relative equipoise that the Veteran's seizure disability was aggravated by active service, while the evidence was persuasively against finding that her viral hepatitis B with cholelithiasis, cholecystitis, and cholecystectomy and pancreatitis more nearly approximated near-constant debilitating symptoms.
- Claimed conditions
- posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with unspecified depressive disorder, seizure disability, viral hepatitis B with cholelithiasis, cholecystitis, and cholecystectomy and pancreatitis
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 26, 2025
- Citation
- 25008425
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,812 · Granted: 30% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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