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A veteran filed for a skin condition with a diagnosis, a doctor's letter, and her own statement. VA decided the claim without ever ordering an exam. Here's why the Board sent it back.
An Army supply specialist stored Agent Orange on Johnston Atoll in the 1970s. Decades later, one private medical opinion connected his toxic exposure to three separate conditions in a single Board decision.
An Army helicopter aircrewman won the in-service noise concession, got a current diagnosis of sensorineural hearing loss, and still lost. Here's exactly how that happens, and what the same decision tells us about the thirteen claims it remanded.
A Marine combat rifleman walked into an exam, said his elbows started hurting during day-to-day training, and walked out with service connection. Here's exactly how that one sentence did the work.
A Vietnam veteran won lung cancer and colon cancer on Agent Orange theories in the same decision he lost anemia. The reason why is a lesson in how presumptive lists actually work.
Citation A25029009: A back pain claim where the Board found the C&P violated three separate CAVC precedents and remanded. How 'inadequate exam' works.
A Gulf War Army veteran fought through five VA denials for asthma and sleep apnea. The case turned on one private opinion that did what four VA examiners wouldn't.
A Marine's 2015 denial sat dead for eight years. Then a TERA memo, two intercurrent grants, and a single lay letter pried open seven claims at once. Here's exactly how it worked.
An Army veteran lost the same migraine claim three times across 22 years. Then he sat down at a Board hearing, told one story about being jumped at Fort Riley, and reopened five claims at once. Here's exactly how.
A veteran with three short service stints and two in-service car accidents got his cervical spine claim granted on a single private physician assistant's nexus opinion. Here's how the file came together.
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