Tag Archives: HCV Decisions

BVA–STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES

Who’s dumber? The Vet who eats rat poison for almost a year and goes blind or the VAMC who should have cut him off after six months? Regardless, the damage is done. It reads a lot like my problems list. … Continue reading

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BVA–LOUISVILLE SLUGGER

Either I’m becoming jaded or the BVA is getting soft on the Kentucky Vets with HCV. This is about the fourth one where the Vet must have had a CMOH to get this kind of consideration. Vets by now are … Continue reading

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BVA– WELL, ACTUALLY IT WAS THE PNEUMONIA

I guess Johnny Alabama wasn’t expecting vA to actually go back and look at his hospitalization records. Surprise! Lookit here. It says that it wasn’t for HCV but actually pneumonia. Can anyone explain this disparity? Johnny finally came clean at the … Continue reading

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BVA- JETGUN WIN FROM NEWARK

Here’s a relatively clean jetgun decision with a side of shared razors. It’s not the first time the VVA has done a bang up job on this. I  see the Vet was smart enough to get a hall pass from … Continue reading

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FALL BVA DECISIONS ARE POSTED

Red hot and the link works. All the late August, September, and some October BVA decisions are up on the boards today. Same sad story of Lions-5, Christians=0 in the BVA Colosseum  We didn’t expect any less. A few will win … Continue reading

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BVA–CUSTER’S LAST STAND

Dang. And I thought they were dragging their feet on my claim. Check this out. Major Reno’s great grandson files for Hep C in 1995. This assumes they didn’t take more than a year to deny from filing date. And … Continue reading

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BVA– ROGER ON THE C-FILES

We often read about our hanging at a BVA Board ruling weeks after it happens. It’s predictable and usually anti-climatic. Of the many I’ve read, this one stands out for its audacity in reporting what we all know. We always hear of … Continue reading

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WHO IS THAT?

Okay. Who is it coming in on the search engines with “Alien abduction of hepatitis children”? Or “eating feces”? There are several other bizarre things that search engines bring here. I posted several about alien abduction being a leading risk factor … Continue reading

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BVA–WHAT PART OF “NO” DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND

FROM THE HENRY JAMES FORD MEMORIAL VARO IN DETROIT Sometimes those funny VLJs just think that the CAVC is funning them. Therefore they feel obligated to fun the CAVC right back. After two “funnings” the BVA finally gets the impression … Continue reading

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BVA–BAD MOON RISING

Here’s one of those remands where the BVA is asking for a little more hemp rope to throw over the limb. Watch closely as VLJ Deborah Singleton carefully steps  around all the different types of hepatitis and  artfully rearranges this … Continue reading

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