The Board granted service connection for angioneurotic edema and remanded the claim for a compensable rating for allergic rhinitis.
The deciding factor: The private medical opinion provided a more probative nexus between the Veteran's in-service symptoms and his current condition, outweighing the VA examiner's negative opinions.
- Claimed conditions
- angioneurotic edema
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- March 24, 2025
- Citation
- A25026890
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,092 · Granted: 42% (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 partial grant means some issues were granted while others were denied or remanded — common in multi-issue claims. Look at which issues went which way, and how each was argued.
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a skin disability other than tinea pedis, finding that there was no persuasive evidence of such a condition during or proximate to his military service. The appeal is dismissed.
- Denied
The Board denied an effective date prior to July 19, 2023 for the grant of service connection for angioneurotic edema.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's motion for revision based on clear and unmistakable error of the August 25, 1971 Rating Decision denying service connection for angioneurotic edema, finding the decision was subsumed by the November 14, 1989 Board decision and therefore not subject to collateral attack. The Board also denied an effective date prior to January 11, 2011 for any award of service connection.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for angioneurotic edema but denied it for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
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