Michael E. Kilcoyne
Veterans Law Judge, Board of Veterans’ Appeals
Decision record in our visible corpus
- Decisions
- 2,020
- Granted
- 348
- Partly granted
- 41
- Other outcomes
- 1,631
19% 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 denied the Veteran's claim for service connection of hepatitis C, finding that there is no evidence to support a link between…
2023-01-10 · denied
- The Veteran's PTSD is currently rated at 70 percent, and the Board has remanded both his claim for an increased rating and his TDIU claim…
2023-01-10 · remanded
- The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) due to outstanding VA treatment records and a need…
2023-01-10 · remanded
- The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for hernia, mitral valve replacement, ischemic stroke, and hypertension due to service…
2023-01-09 · remanded
- The Board has decided that the Veteran's right foot neuropathies following July 2016 surgery may have been caused by carelessness,…
2022-01-13 · remanded
- The Veteran's overpayment of VA compensation benefits is being remanded due to a misunderstanding regarding the period during which he was…
2022-01-12 · remanded
- The Board has decided that the Veteran's claim for reimbursement of non-VA medical expenses from July 31, 2016 to August 5, 2016 at Largo…
2022-01-12 · remanded
- The Board has granted service connection for peripheral neuropathy, but denied service connection for a neurological disorder other than…
2022-01-11 · granted
- The Veteran's appeals for service connection on multiple conditions have been dismissed due to the death of the Veteran.
2022-01-11 · dismissed
- The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for a rating in excess of 20 percent and 40 percent for lumbar spine degenerative disc disease…
2022-01-11 · remanded
- The Board remands the Veteran's claim for a rating in excess of 30 percent for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to schedule him for…
2022-01-10 · remanded
- The Veteran's appeals for a higher rating for unspecified depressive disorder and service connection for PTSD have been dismissed due to…
2022-01-10 · dismissed