The appeal for service connection for generalized anxiety disorder with unspecified depressive disorder and unspecified insomnia was dismissed because the Veteran has been granted the benefit he seeks on appeal.
The deciding factor: The Board finds no remaining allegations of errors of fact or law for appellate consideration, as the RO issued a Rating Decision granting service connection for 'depressive disorder due to chronic pain with MDD like episode generalized anxiety disorder with insomnia disorder' while the appeal was pending.
- Claimed conditions
- generalized anxiety disorder with unspecified depressive disorder, unspecified insomnia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 24, 2025
- Citation
- A25016312
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,135 · Granted: 33% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the appeals for reduction of evaluation, service connection, and increased rating for generalized anxiety disorder with unspecified depressive disorder due to the Veteran's withdrawal of his appeal.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board dismissed the appeal for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disability (TDIU) and remanded several issues related to increased ratings for various disabilities.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for migraines as secondary to tinnitus and unspecified insomnia as secondary to migraines, but remanded the claims for arthritis of the right hand, left hand, right wrist, and left wrist.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for unspecified insomnia and mixed anxiety and depressive disorder due to an insufficient rationale in the previous VA opinion.
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