A. P. Simpson
Veterans Law Judge, Board of Veterans’ Appeals
Decision record in our visible corpus
- Decisions
- 1,911
- Granted
- 135
- Partly granted
- 60
- Other outcomes
- 1,716
10% granted or partly granted. Counts describe only decisions visible in our corpus and say nothing about how any individual appeal will be decided — every appeal turns on its own facts and evidence.
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial. Counts are compiled from published Board of Veterans’ Appeals decisions — see how this data is built. If you believe this page misattributes a decision or misstates a record, contact us and we will review and correct it.
Conditions this judge decides most
Recent decisions
- The Board remands the appeal to obtain a VA medical opinion that considers the Veteran's contentions of in-service training with heavy…
2025-12-31 · remanded
- The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for bilateral hearing loss, as there was no evidence of a current disability…
2025-12-31 · denied
- The Board dismissed the Veteran's appeals for service connection for bilateral hearing loss disability and tinnitus due to a lack of…
2025-12-30 · dismissed
- The Board denied service connection for a bilateral hearing loss disability as the evidence did not support a nexus between the disability…
2025-12-30 · denied
- The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for a total disability rating for compensation based on individual unemployability due to…
2025-12-30 · denied
- The Board granted restoration of a 10 percent rating for the left eye disability and a 60 percent rating from February 4, 2021, to July…
2025-12-30 · granted
- The appeal for additional accrued benefits in excess of $10,607.79 was dismissed due to a prohibited concurrent election.
2025-12-30 · dismissed
- The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection and increased ratings, finding that the evidence did not support an increase…
2025-12-29 · denied
- The Board remands the Veteran's claim for an increased rating in excess of 20 percent for type II diabetes mellitus to address a…
2025-12-29 · remanded
- The Board denied service connection for a lumbar spine disability, right knee disability, and left knee disability as there was no…
2025-12-29 · denied
- The Board remands the claim for a lumbar spine disability to obtain an addendum medical opinion, as the previous opinions were found…
2025-12-23 · remanded
- The Board granted service connection for a psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, MDD, and alcohol use disorder, as secondary to the…
2025-12-23 · granted