Tag Archives: Help with vA Claims

This is an interesting case. An ACTING VLJ is hearing it so he wants to get it right as he is the FNG. So he’s playing it strictly by the book.   If you think this was an accident, you … Continue reading →

Readjudication on a De Novo basis means going back to the original decision date in 1997 and starting over. It’s like a brand new claim. You can introduce new evidence, old evidence, anything you want and they have to accept … Continue reading →

This is short and sweet. The VET has Hep. He doesn’t know where it came from. More importantly, he knows where it didn’t come from. He states the risk factors, discounts the drug connection which he can , as a … Continue reading →

Pretty simple deal. The VET had plenty of viable risk factors here but he ignored the ones he could make a medical nexus with and pursued the ones he couldn’t prove. The BVA Judge is being polite and not calling … Continue reading →

If this VET didn’t get hep in service, I’ll eat my hat. This is Stage 5 or death to the VA. He was in the service 35+ years previous. I’m sure they’ll find an examiner to “opine” that it is … Continue reading →

Pretty cool . We ought to call this the “Chicks in Cholon” defense . The Cholon District in Saigon, for the uninitiated, was where most all the prostitutes were. They all had VD cards stamped weekly saying they were clean … Continue reading →

I’m going to excise some dull reading here and leave the meat… Citation Nr: 0607837 Decision Date: 03/17/06 Archive Date: 03/29/06 DOCKET NO. 00-01 467         )         DATE ) ) On appeal from … Continue reading →

This decision is interesting for several reasons and I will address all of them. The first is the boilerplate phrase in the last paragraph of the decision.-“must be handled in an expeditious manner”. These boys must not eat ice cream … Continue reading →

This VET is going to be suffering the mailbox disease for quite a while. Did you see the reference to AMC? That stands for Appeals Management Center. We who know refer to it as Limbo. It’s the black hole for … Continue reading →