Timothy Cothrel
Veterans Law Judge, Board of Veterans’ Appeals
Decision record in our visible corpus
- Decisions
- 696
- Granted
- 274
- Partly granted
- 162
- Other outcomes
- 260
63% 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 granted service connection for asthma but denied it for hypertension.
2025-12-31 · mixed
- The Board granted a 50 percent rating for the Veteran's migraine headaches based on prostrating attacks occurring more than once a month…
2025-12-31 · granted
- The Board granted service connection for depressive disorder as secondary to hypertension and tinnitus, but denied service connection for…
2025-12-31 · mixed
- The Board granted service connection for degenerative arthritis of the spine with intervertebral disc syndrome, right knee, and left knee…
2025-12-31 · granted
- The Board granted service connection for hypothyroidism, as it is presumptively linked to herbicide agent exposure during the Veteran's…
2025-12-30 · granted
- The appeal for a rating in excess of 50 percent for generalized anxiety disorder under the Appeals Modernization Act (AMA) was dismissed…
2025-12-30 · dismissed
- The Board remands the claim for a vestibular condition, to include BPPV and Meniere's disease, as secondary to service-connected tinnitus…
2025-12-30 · remanded
- The Board granted an effective date of January 6, 2007 for service connection of obstructive sleep apnea.
2025-12-29 · granted
- The Board remands the claim for service connection of obstructive sleep apnea as secondary to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)…
2025-12-29 · remanded
- The Board granted service connection for sleep apnea, finding it to be caused by the Veteran's service-connected PTSD.
2025-12-23 · granted
- The Board granted service connection for hypertension and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, finding that the Veteran's hypertension was…
2025-12-23 · granted
- The Board granted service connection for hearing loss, finding that the Veteran's bilateral hearing loss is related to his active duty…
2025-12-23 · granted