Robert E. O'Brien
Veterans Law Judge, Board of Veterans’ Appeals
Decision record in our visible corpus
- Decisions
- 108
- Granted
- 11
- Partly granted
- 5
- Other outcomes
- 92
15% 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 claims for service connection for chloracne and a chronic respiratory disability, finding no evidence of…
2009-03-25 · denied
- The appeal is remanded to the RO for further development and readjudication of the Veteran's claim for service connection for a chronic…
2009-03-12 · remanded
- The Board denied service connection for prostate cancer as it is not shown to be related to the Veteran's active service or any…
2009-03-10 · denied
- The Board denied an initial rating higher than 20 percent for diabetes mellitus with hypertension, proteinuria, erectile dysfunction and…
2009-03-10 · denied
- The Board remands the case to obtain additional evidence and afford the Veteran a VA examination.
2009-03-09 · remanded
- The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings and service connection, finding no evidence of a more severe disability or…
2009-03-04 · denied
- The Board remands the claims for service connection for residuals of cold weather injury and residuals of right knee injury to the RO for…
2009-03-04 · remanded
- The Board denied service connection for seborrhea dermatitis, finding no evidence of the condition during or shortly after service and no…
2009-02-24 · denied
- The Veteran's left hip strain and degenerative joint disease of the right hip are granted as secondary to his service-connected residuals…
2009-02-20 · granted
- The Veteran's claims for an increased rating for postoperative residuals of right herniorrhaphy and hydrocele repair, service connection…
2009-02-20 · denied
- The Board denied service connection for a left shoulder disability as it was not shown to be caused or aggravated by the Veteran's…
2009-02-17 · denied
- The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss as there was no competent evidence of a causal relationship between the…
2009-02-12 · denied