BVA Decisions on Arthritis

125 real veterans-appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving arthritis — Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions and U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) decisions, each labeled with its court. Each links to the full decision, reasoning, and citations.

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• CAVCCase 96-1214 — Denied / Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded February 11, 1999
  In the May 28, 1996, BVA decision here on appeal, the Board denied service connection for wounds of the lower extremities, frostbite of the feet, a skin disorder of the feet, heari...
• CAVCCase 94-503 — Affirmed November 5, 1997
  Savage, appeals a March 16, 1994, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) that denied a claim of service connection for a right hip disability after determining t...
• CAVCCase 93-1220 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded August 1, 1996
  In a September 1978 BVA decision, the Board denied service connection for a back disability....
• CAVCCase 95-984 — Dismissed June 14, 2001
  Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) affirmed the Court's decision that the November 1972 VARO decision did not contain CUE, but remanded the matter to determ...
• CAVCCase 90-0818 — Unknown April 12, 1995
  In a July 1988 decision, the RO determined that the veteran had not submitted new and material evidence to reopen his claim because no medical records had shown a right-leg injury ...
• CAVCCase 94-1080 — Affirmed / Granted / Vacated November 26, 1996
  Subsequently, the RO and then the Board denied service connection for residuals of a head injury....
• CAVCCase 92-1347 — Affirmed June 21, 1994
  Glynn, had not submitted new and material evidence regarding his claim for service connection for a back condition, and thus refused to reopen this previously and finally denied cl...
• CAVCCase 93-644 — Dismissed / Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded April 14, 1995
  In February 1987, the RO confirmed its October 1986 denial of service connection for heart disease, finding that the evidence submitted was "not new and material"....
• CAVCCase 04-0185 — Vacated June 5, 2006
  McLendon argues that the Board erred in its evaluation of the evidence and that the Secretary failed to provide him with a VA medical examination pursuant to 38 U....
• BVACase 22061364 — Granted / Denied / Remanded November 2, 2022
  Establishing direct service connection generally requires (1) medical evidence of a current disability; (2) medical, or in certain circumstances, lay evidence of in-service occurre...
• CAVCCase 92-622 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded March 6, 1995
  The appellant has filed a brief requesting that the Court vacate the Board's decision denying his claims for back condition and arthritis, reverse the Board's finding that the evid...
• CAVCCase 01-467 — Affirmed / Reversed / Remanded / Vacated October 22, 2003
  First, the Board found that, with respect to the MGs in the appellant's left shoulder, the evidence shows that the residuals of the GSW to the left shoulder involve only MG I and n...
• CAVCCase 97-828 — Granted / Denied / Vacated March 30, 1999
  In the 1997 BVA decision here on appeal, the Board denied the PTSD claim because it was "based on noncombat-related unverified stressors", and because corroboration of an in-servic...
• CAVCCase 02-2259 — Reversed / Remanded / Vacated April 19, 2005
  In an April 1977 decision, the Board found that his multiple-joint arthritis, other than that of his left knee, was not incurred while in service, aggravated by service, or caused ...
• BVACase 20005180 — Granted / Denied / Remanded September 24, 2024
  14-09 226A DATE: September 24, 2024 ORDER New and material evidence having been received, the claim of service connection for a low back disorder is reopened and to this extent onl...
• CAVCCase 92-1391 — Remanded / Affirmed / Vacated April 8, 1994
  The appellant claims the Board erred in declining to reopen his claim for a low-back disorder as caused by either an in-service injury or as secondary to an in-service appendectomy...
• BVACase 230405-336506 — Denied / Granted / Remanded October 7, 2025
  The Board must assess the credibility and weight of all the evidence, including the medical evidence, to determine its probative value, accounting for the evidence which it finds t...
• CAVCCase 91-1688 — Unknown September 16, 1993
  In its July 1991 decision, the Board denied service connection for (1) defective hearing of the left ear, (2) residuals of an injury to the right index finger, (3) pseudofolliculit...
• CAVCCase 94-850 — Vacated October 7, 1996
  In the August 3, 1994, BVA decision here on appeal, the Board concluded that the veteran had not submitted a well-grounded claim for service connection for Crohn's disease....
• BVACase 23007415 — Granted / Denied / Remanded February 6, 2023
  18-30 679 DATE: February 6, 2023 ORDER New and material evidence having been received, the claim for service connection for bilateral hearing loss is reopened, and to that extent o...
• CAVCCase 97-1178 — Remanded / Denied / Reversed / Vacated August 17, 1999
  In an April 1978 BVA decision, the Board denied increased ratings for the veteran's already service-connected Pott's disease (inactive and previously rated as 60% disabling pursuan...
• CAVCCase 90-858 — Reversed / Remanded / Denied / Granted August 19, 1992
  The Court holds that the Board's conclusion that November 9, 1984, is the appropriate date for the assignment of a 20% disability rating was clearly erroneous, that the Board faile...
• CAVCCase 93-985 — Vacated July 14, 1995
  This case presents the Court with three related questions: (1) Whether this claim was well grounded when only "hearsay" medical evidence (the appellant's statement as to what his p...
• CAVCCase 90-720 — Vacated / Affirmed February 18, 1994
  3 On July 20, 1988, the rating board denied service connection for a seizure disorder, headaches, peripheral vascular disease, and venous insufficiency....
• BVACase 23012576 — Denied / Granted / Remanded March 1, 2023
  New and material evidence has not been received to reopen a claim of entitlement to service connection for chronic migraine headaches, and the claim to reopen is denied....
• CAVCCase 96-1574 — Affirmed / Denied November 16, 1998
  In a November 3, 1973, BVA decision, the Board determined that "[t]he veteran does not have an identifiable disease entity involving the low back, thighs[,] and legs related to the...
• BVACase 23063112 — Dismissed / Granted / Remanded November 29, 2023
  New and material evidence has been received sufficient to reopen a previously denied claim for service connection of a respiratory condition, to include allergic rhinitis and sinus...
• CAVCCase 97-1321 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed April 2, 1999
  In addressing the tinnitus claim, the Board noted in its findings of fact that "[a] medical examiner has not documented persistent tinnitus....
• BVACase 24009973 — Granted / Denied / Remanded February 29, 2024
  20-27 542 DATE: February 29, 2024 ORDER New and material evidence having been received, the claim of service connection for a low back disorder is reopened and to this extent only,...
• CAVCCase 90-960 — Granted / Affirmed / Denied / Vacated / Remanded September 29, 1992
  Post-traumatic Stress Disorder When a veteran presents a well-grounded claim for service connection, the Secretary has a duty to assist the veteran in developing the facts pertinen...
• CAVCCase 98-354 — Reversed May 12, 2000
  In the January 1998 BVA decision here on appeal, the Board denied the veteran's claim for CUE in the April 1977 RO decision....
• BVACase 23038858 — Granted / Denied / Remanded July 13, 2023
  19-09 657 DATE: July 13, 2023 ORDER New and material evidence having been received, the claim of service connection for adjustment disorder is reopened and to this extent only, the...
• CAVCCase 92-1372 — Vacated / Affirmed December 14, 1993
  Additionally in 1984, the RO denied reopening of appellant's claim for malnutrition based on no new and material evidence, and denied service connection in the first instance for n...
• CAVCCase 99-2210 — Denied December 20, 2001
  5 In a Supplemental Statement of the Case and Hearing Officer's Decision of August 1996, the RO sustained the prior finding that no new and material evidence had been submitted to ...
• BVACase 23016984 — Granted / Remanded March 19, 2023
  17-33 381 DATE: March 19, 2023 ORDER New and material evidence was received, and the petition to reopen the claim of service connection for a left ear hearing loss disability is gr...
• CAVCCase 90-222 — Affirmed / Remanded / Vacated April 24, 1992
  The rating board concluded: "Veteran is not shown to be unemployable primarily because of [service-connected] condition....
• BVACase 25002467 — Denied February 20, 2025
  Thus, the Board finds that VA has satisfied the duty to assist....
• CAVCCase 91-1683 — Denied / Granted / Vacated June 2, 1994
  In the June 1991 decision here on appeal, the Board denied the appellant's claim....
• CAVCCase 01-1156 — Vacated / Remanded February 27, 2003
  The Board concluded that the appellant was receiving the maximum schedular ratings allowed for his conditions....
• CAVCCase 97-1780 — Remanded / Vacated April 21, 1999
  The appellant also alleges that the Board failed to adjudicate his claim for an earlier effective date for his lumbosacral spine disorder and that that issue should be remanded to ...
• CAVCCase 94-149 — Reversed / Dismissed / Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed April 16, 1996
  In April 1971, the RO, finding the evidence submitted "not new and material to warrant a favorable reconsideration", refused to reopen the claim....
• BVACase 200901-107174 — Granted / Denied / Remanded March 26, 2024
  The Veteran was notified of the denial in an October 2016 letter and did not initiate an appeal or submit new and material evidence within one year....
• BVACase 24005610 — Granted / Denied / Remanded February 2, 2024
  20-09 093 DATE: February 2, 2024 ORDER New and material evidence having been received, the claims of service connection for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a lumbar spine di...
• CAVCCase 94-0384 — Affirmed February 27, 1997
  The next month, the Regional Office (RO) informed him that he was not service connected for bronchitis, but that if he wished to file a claim for that condition, he needed to submi...
• CAVCCase 01-2105 — Vacated / Remanded December 23, 2004
  Because the Board failed to provide an adequate statement of reasons or bases for its decision, the decision will be vacated and the matter remanded to the Board for further action...
• CAVCCase 91-2162 — Affirmed April 16, 1993
  McIntosh appeals from a November 1, 1991, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) which declined to reopen his previously disallowed claim for service connection ...
• CAVCCase 00-1888 — Vacated February 12, 2003
  In the February 2000 BVA decision here on appeal, the Board denied a rating greater than 20% for the appellant's bilateral hearing loss with tinnitus and assigned a separate 10% ra...
• CAVCCase 91-87 — Reversed / Vacated / Denied December 3, 1992
  The Court holds that the Board's determination that the evidence most recently submitted by the veteran was not "new and material" was correct....
• BVACase 210114-136617 — Granted / Denied / Remanded May 17, 2024
  If evidence was submitted either (1) during the period after the AOJ issued the decision on appeal and prior to the date the Board received the VA Form 10182, or (2) more than 90 d...
• BVACase 20-3293 — Unknown
  Because we conclude that the Veterans Court properly interpreted the benefit of the doubt rule under 38 U....
• BVACase 210413-152704 — Denied / Granted February 9, 2024
  Affording the Veteran the benefit of the doubt, the evidence demonstrates the Veteran has a right foot condition that was caused or aggravated by service-connect left foot and left...
• CAVCCase 96-1508 — Reversed / Remanded February 23, 1999
  His service medical records do not reveal any diagnosis of or treatment for liver problems and he was not service connected for any disease or injury....
• CAVCCase 92-1410 — Vacated / Remanded February 8, 1994
  Kightly, appeals the July 24, 1992, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) which determined that new and material evidence had not been submitted to reopen appel...
• BVACase 221114-297761 — Denied / Remanded March 13, 2025
  The question for the Board is whether the Veteran has a current disability that began during service or is at least as likely as not related to an in-service injury, event, or dise...
• CAVCCase 90-103 — Vacated September 15, 1993
  actor in the veteran's unemployment; to discuss the veteran's capacity for work; and to discuss the credibility of the veteran's sworn testimony as evidence....
• CAVCCase 96-1373 — Affirmed November 17, 1999
  6 In June 1996, the Board found that the appellant had failed to submit a well-grounded claim....
• BVACase 220714-259014 — Denied / Remanded October 30, 2024
  If evidence was submitted during the period after the AOJ issued the decisions, which were subsequently subject to higher-level review the Board did not consider it in its decision...
• CAVCCase 94-54 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded March 8, 1996
  The appellant contends that the Board erred in failing to apply 38 U....
• CAVCCase 97-280 — Unknown September 29, 1999
  In the October 24, 1996, BVA decision here on appeal, the Board denied the veteran's knee-disability claim as not well grounded because of a lack of evidence to link the claimed co...
• CAVCCase 90-476 — Denied / Reversed / Vacated February 6, 1992
  On April 26, 1960, the VA Regional Office (VARO) rating board denied service connection for psychoneurosis mixed type and rupture of nucleus pulposis with nerve root compression L-...
• CAVCCase 94-688 — Reversed / Vacated / Remanded September 6, 1996
  ) 6 In the April 1994 BVA decision here on appeal, the Board found that during his active military service "the veteran sustained a gunshot wound to the right shoulder" and that th...
• CAVCCase 90-654 — Remanded August 19, 1991
  While stating that it did "not doubt the sincerity of the lay statements", the rating board found that "the evidence fails to establish that the veteran had any complaints of a hea...
• CAVCCase 96-947 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded January 20, 1999
  Additionally, the Board concluded that the veteran had never filed a Substantive Appeal as to claims for service connection for varicose 2 veins of the right leg and for an increas...
• CAVCCase 98-1410 — Dismissed / Affirmed July 21, 2000
  The Board found that further development was required with respect to the veteran's claims for headaches, insomnia, mild obstructive airway disease, metallic taste in his mouth, an...
• BVACase 23045875 — Dismissed / Denied / Granted / Remanded August 17, 2023
  New and material evidence sufficient to reopen the claim of service connection for left shoulder impingement syndrome has not been presented....
• DecisionCase 23031607 — Denied / Granted / Remanded May 31, 2023
  A medical link or nexus between the Veteran's back condition and an in-service incurrence has not been established; the Veteran's current back condition is not shown to have manife...
• CAVCCase 02-1814 — Remanded / Affirmed / Denied / Vacated September 22, 2006
  He contends that the Board erred in finding that he had received adequate notice under section 5103(a)....
• BVACase 22-2575 — Remanded October 8, 2024
  2015 examination was inadequate for evaluation purposes and the Board's finding to the contrary was clearly erroneous") (emphasis added)....
• CAVCCase 00-2382 — Reversed June 6, 2003
  In the August 2000 BVA decision here on appeal denying the veteran's claim for service connection for DJD of the right hip, the Board determined that the veteran's claim for VA ser...
• CAVCCase 93-942 — Unknown November 14, 1995
  According to an October 29, 1991, Statement of the Case, the reason for the denial was that the appellant had not submitted new and material evidence showing that his pes planus co...
• CAVCCase 90-639 — Denied / Vacated / Remanded January 25, 1993
  Appellant contends that the BVA decision is clearly erroneous....
• CAVCCase 90-1150 — Vacated / Dismissed / Granted / Reversed September 23, 1994
  8 is a finding of fact that the Court must affirm unless that determination is found to be 'clearly erroneous'"); Bledsoe v....
• BVACase 24000293 — Denied / Granted January 3, 2024
  The Board will grant the Veteran the benefit of the doubt, and grant service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, variously diagnosed, pursuant to Clemons v....
• CAVCCase 90-1053 — Denied / Vacated / Remanded December 18, 1991
  The Court finds that the evidence submitted by appellant is new and material under 38 C....
• CAVCCase 94-557 — Reversed / Denied / Remanded / Vacated / Affirmed November 14, 1997
  A June 1979 RO decision granted a 30% rating for service-connected congestive heart failure, effective on July 15, 1978, and concluded that CDD and related muscle atrophy were not ...
• BVACase 24031166 — Denied / Remanded September 26, 2024
  The Veteran's right knee, bilateral shoulder, and bilateral elbow disabilities are not related to an in-service injury or disease, to include as due to service in Southwest Asia an...
• CAVCCase 97-778 — Vacated / Affirmed August 27,1998
  The BVA Decision On appeal to the BVA, the Board found that the evidence did not establish that the sexual assault had occurred in service and denied the appellant's claim for serv...
• BVACase 23047014 — Denied August 24, 2023
  ion nor the September 2020 addendum opinion address the October 1985 VA examination;" and (2) "[I]t failed to address the probative value of the May 2002 private medical opinion....
• BVACase 200826-106084 — Granted / Remanded February 15, 2024
  Establishing service connection generally requires (1) evidence of a current disability; (2) evidence of in-service incurrence or aggravation of a disease or injury; and (3) eviden...
• DecisionCase 240517-440505 — Denied / Remanded / Granted May 30, 2025
  Continuity of symptomatology may be shown by demonstrating "(1) that a condition was 'noted' during service or any applicable presumption period; (2) evidence of post-service conti...