The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a sleep disorder, to include insomnia, and remanded the issue of entitlement to service connection for right knee, to include as secondary to left knee disability.
The deciding factor: There is no current diagnosis of a sleep disorder or evidence linking any claimed condition to service. The Veteran's assertions lack probative value without competent medical evidence supporting his claims.
- Claimed conditions
- sleep disorder, to include insomnia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 9, 2025
- Citation
- A25050413
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,726 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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