Michael Pappas
Veterans Law Judge, Board of Veterans’ Appeals
Decision record in our visible corpus
- Decisions
- 317
- Granted
- 58
- Partly granted
- 2
- Other outcomes
- 257
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 Veteran's claim for service connection for upper respiratory infection (claimed as restrictive airway disease secondary to photo lab…
2019-08-08 · granted
- The Veteran's right knee patellofemoral disability and degenerative joint disease, as well as his left knee patellofemoral disability and…
2019-08-02 · denied
- The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for left and right ankle disabilities due to further evidentiary…
2019-08-02 · remanded
- The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for hypertension and bilateral hearing loss due to missing service treatment records. The…
2019-08-01 · remanded
- The Veteran's claims for an earlier effective date and increased rating were denied. The Board found no clear and unmistakable error in…
2019-08-01 · denied
- The Veteran's surviving child is not entitled to death pension benefits because her income exceeds the maximum annual pension rate for a…
2019-07-12 · denied
- The Veteran's petition to reopen his previously denied claim for service connection of a low back disability is granted. The Board also…
2019-07-12 · granted
- The Board has determined that the Veteran's bilateral neuropathy of the upper extremities is proximately due to, or the result of, her…
2019-07-11 · granted
- The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date of his increased rating of 50 percent for bilateral hearing loss is granted, with the…
2019-07-11 · granted
- The Veteran's step-son, R.H., was added as a dependent effective September 1, 2016. The Board found that the earliest date of claim for…
2019-07-09 · denied
- The Board has determined that a remand is necessary to evaluate the nature and etiology of the Veteran's right knee disability, as well as…
2019-07-09 · remanded
- The Board has remanded the cases for further development and an addendum medical opinion to address whether the Veteran's preexisting…
2019-07-09 · remanded