L. B. Cryan
Veterans Law Judge, Board of Veterans’ Appeals
Decision record in our visible corpus
- Decisions
- 1,421
- Granted
- 349
- Partly granted
- 93
- Other outcomes
- 979
31% 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 appeal of entitlement to service connection for Hashimoto's disease was dismissed due to an impermissible concurrent election while a…
2025-12-31 · dismissed
- The Veteran is granted an effective date of August 10, 2022, for the grant of service connection for sinusitis based on the PACT Act.
2025-12-31 · granted
- The Board denied an initial rating in excess of 50 percent for service-connected unspecified bipolar disorder with cyclothymic disorder…
2025-12-30 · denied
- The Board denied an effective date prior to December 4, 2024, for the grant of service connection for degenerative arthritis of the lumbar…
2025-12-30 · mixed
- The Board granted a separate 10 percent rating for right lower extremity radiculopathy (femoral nerve) effective from August 14, 2013, but…
2025-12-29 · mixed
- The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss, finding that the evidence did not support a current disability or a link…
2025-12-29 · denied
- The Board denied service connection for allergic rhinitis and remanded the issue of entitlement to service connection for sinusitis due to…
2025-12-29 · mixed
- The Board denied an initial compensable rating for the Veteran's service-connected hypothyroidism as there was no evidence of compensable…
2025-12-23 · denied
- The Board granted service connection for arteriosclerotic heart disease (CAD) with bypass graft as secondary to type II diabetes mellitus,…
2025-12-23 · mixed
- The Board denied service connection for right and left knee, shoulder, and knee scars disabilities, as well as a compensable disability…
2025-12-23 · denied
- The Board granted service connection for tinnitus based on the evidence showing symptoms first manifested in service and have been…
2025-12-22 · granted
- The Board dismissed the appeals for an earlier effective date and higher ratings, as well as denied service connection for various…
2025-12-19 · dismissed