Tag Archives: Help with vA Claims

Start claim in 1970. Walk away and forget to appeal. Open old claim in 87,96,98, and finally get SC in 2003. Ask for 87 effective date , but, hold on to your hat, get the 1970 effective date. This is … Continue reading →

August 18, 2008. This is just one of 43 cases traveling through the BVA system to utilize the precedence setting effects of Groves v. Peake in 2008. We will be seeing many more of these and a mass quantity of … Continue reading →

Veterans have asked us how the VA rates you for Hep. Here is an actual decision that shows what they offer for degree of disability. More about this at the end of the decision… http://www.va.gov/vetapp08/Files2/0812018.txt Having read this, You now … Continue reading →

Remember, Veterans, when you obtain a nexus from a doctor, it has to be phrased exactly right or it is a wasted effort. This ruling is a classic example of that which I speak. This Veteran did everything correctly with … Continue reading →

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 →