The appeal regarding service connection for tonic clonic seizures and grand mal seizures has been withdrawn by the Veteran.
The deciding factor: The Veteran withdrew the appeal in an April 2025 written statement.
- Claimed conditions
- tonic clonic seizures, grand mal seizures
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 27, 2025
- Citation
- A25046778
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 918 · Granted: 32% (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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
- Denied
The Veteran's cause of death was not caused by a disability incurred or aggravated in service, and the Board denied the claim for service connection.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's claims for service connection were dismissed due to their death. The Board has no jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits of these appeals.
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the Veteran's appeals for service connection on four issues: back disability, knee disability, grand mal seizures, and hearing loss. The claims were denied in September 2017 without a timely Notice of Disagreement.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has denied service connection for residuals of a brain hemorrhage and Chiari I malformation due to lack of current diagnosis.,Service connection is remanded for grand mal seizures, loss of balance, and global transient amnesia.
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