BVA Decisions on Cervical
71 real veterans-appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving cervical — 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 94-503 — Affirmed November 5, 1997Savage, 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...
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CAVCCase 94-1080 — Affirmed / Granted / Vacated November 26, 1996Subsequently, the RO and then the Board denied service connection for residuals of a head injury....
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CAVCCase 91-504 — Unknown October 5, 1994In decisions dated September and December 1974, the RO denied entitlement to non-service-connected pension; those decisions did not address the issue of service connection....
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CAVCCase 91-1288 — Denied May 27, 1994KRAMER, Judge: Appellant, Gool Counts, appeals the April 15, 1991, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) which determined that new and material evidence had not...
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CAVCCase 92-970 — Unknown April 17, 1996On May 21, 1992, the Board denied a schedular evaluation greater than 10% for the service- connected left mandible condition but granted an additional 10% evaluation for that condi...
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CAVCCase 92-622 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded March 6, 1995The 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...
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BVACase 23029996 — Dismissed / Denied / Granted / Remanded May 23, 2023The additional documentation submitted since the September 2009 rating decision is new and material and raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the Veteran's claim of ser...
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CAVCCase 93-550 — Dismissed / Vacated December 20, 1994In October 1972, an RO decision on appeal found "no evidence sufficiently new and material to warrant a rating change"....
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CAVCCase 02-2259 — Reversed / Remanded / Vacated April 19, 2005In 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 ...
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CAVCCase 94-169 — Vacated / Remanded August 9, 1995The Board concluded that there was no evidence that the appellant experienced hearing loss during service....
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BVACase 230405-336506 — Denied / Granted / Remanded October 7, 2025The 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...
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CAVCCase 91-1688 — Unknown September 16, 1993In 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...
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CAVCCase 90-178 — Affirmed / Vacated November 12, 1991The rating board denied service connection for a nervous condition because there was no evidence of 3 treatment for a nervous condition in service....
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BVACase 23007415 — Granted / Denied / Remanded February 6, 202318-30 679 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...
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BVACase 14-283 — ReversedSullivan appeals from a decision of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (“Veterans Court”) affirming the decision of the Board of Veterans Appeals (“Board”) concluding that th...
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CAVCCase 90-720 — Vacated / Affirmed February 18, 19943 On July 20, 1988, the rating board denied service connection for a seizure disorder, headaches, peripheral vascular disease, and venous insufficiency....
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BVACase 23012576 — Denied / Granted / Remanded March 1, 2023New 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....
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BVACase 24009973 — Granted / Denied / Remanded February 29, 202420-27 542 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,...
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CAVCCase 90-960 — Granted / Affirmed / Denied / Vacated / Remanded September 29, 1992Post-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...
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BVACase 23038858 — Granted / Denied / Remanded July 13, 202319-09 657 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...
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CAVCCase 93-493 — Vacated February 4, 1994§ 5107(a), that "the facts relevant to the issue on appeal have been properly and adequately developed", and that VA had complied with its statutory duty to assist....
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BVACase 25002467 — Denied February 20, 2025Thus, the Board finds that VA has satisfied the duty to assist....
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CAVCCase 91-1683 — Denied / Granted / Vacated June 2, 1994In the June 1991 decision here on appeal, the Board denied the appellant's claim....
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CAVCCase 97-1780 — Remanded / Vacated April 21, 1999The 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 ...
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BVACase 200901-107174 — Granted / Denied / Remanded March 26, 2024The 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....
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BVACase 23006286 — Denied / Remanded February 1, 2023The Veteran's cervical spine disability is not related to his active service....
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BVACase 190916-30775 — Granted / Denied / Remanded May 1, 2024The rating of ten percent for right index finger scarring from July 31, 2006, to July 26, 2016, was not clearly erroneous, has already been restored, and since July 26, 2016, the r...
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CAVCCase 91-87 — Reversed / Vacated / Denied December 3, 1992The Court holds that the Board's determination that the evidence most recently submitted by the veteran was not "new and material" was correct....
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BVACase 210114-136617 — Granted / Denied / Remanded May 17, 2024If 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...
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BVACase 210413-152704 — Denied / Granted February 9, 2024Affording 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...
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BVACase 24019477 — Denied / Remanded May 8, 202419-15 919A DATE: May 8, 2024 ORDER New and material evidence has been received to reopen the previously denied claim of entitlement to service connection for sleep apnea, and the c...
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CAVCCase 95-1082 — Remanded / Reversed / Vacated June 23, 1999te for the assignment of a 50% schedular rating for service-connected PCS (claim 2), and found that new and material evidence had not been presented to reopen a previously and fina...
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CAVCCase 92-1410 — Vacated / Remanded February 8, 1994Kightly, 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...
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BVACase 23034679 — Granted / Denied / Remanded June 20, 2023As new and material evidence (NME) has not been received, the claim to reopen entitlement to service connection for a back condition is denied....
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BVACase 220615-252249 — Granted / Denied / Remanded August 25, 2025e present disability and the disease or injury incurred or aggravated during service-the so-called "nexus" requirement....
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BVACase 221114-297761 — Denied / Remanded March 13, 2025The 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...
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CAVCCase 90-103 — Vacated September 15, 1993actor 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....
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DecisionCase 23034765 — Granted June 21, 2023In May 2019, the Board found that new and material evidence had not been received to reopen the appellant's claim of entitlement to recognition as the Veteran's surviving spouse....
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CAVCCase 90-1133 — Affirmed September 30, 1992In the decision under appeal, the Board determined that the evidence the veteran had submitted after the 1987 decision did not provide a new factual basis for establishing the clai...
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CAVCCase 98-1410 — Dismissed / Affirmed July 21, 2000The 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...
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CAVCCase 03-1204 — Vacated / Remanded July 20, 2006Bradford's appeal from a May 9, 2003, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) decision in which the Board denied his claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder to...
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BVACase 191209-55231 — Granted / Remanded February 14, 2024If evidence was submitted either (1) during the period after the AOJ issued the decision on appeal and prior to the Board hearing, or (2) more than 90 days following the hearing, t...
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CAVCCase 95-904 — Affirmed October 15, 1999The Board determined that his claims for service connection for a seizure disorder and a neck disorder were not well grounded....
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CAVCCase 94-328 — Vacated / Remanded / Denied April 23, 1996ision denying service connection for DM and remand the matter for further consideration because the Board failed to consider whether his DM might be secondary to asserted malnutrit...
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CAVCCase 91-386 — Vacated / Remanded December 2, 1993In a decision dated October 24, 1990, the Board denied service connection for the cause of the veteran's death, stating that symptoms characteristic of PTSD were not noted in the c...
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CAVCCase 93-942 — Unknown November 14, 1995According 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...
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CAVCCase 95-444 — Denied March 21, 1997A well-grounded service-connection claim generally requires medical evidence of a current disability; medical or, in certain circumstances, lay evidence of in-service incurrence or...
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BVACase 23012743 — Granted / Denied March 2, 2023The Veteran's headache disorder did not have its onset in, and is not related to, her service....
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BVACase 24000293 — Denied / Granted January 3, 2024The 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....
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CAVCCase 94-557 — Reversed / Denied / Remanded / Vacated / Affirmed November 14, 1997A 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 ...
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BVACase 190913-290924 — Remanded December 13, 2022However, neither private examiner provided a nexus opinion on whether his psychiatric conditions are due to service....
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CAVCCase 97-778 — Vacated / Affirmed August 27,1998The 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...
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BVACase 23047014 — Denied August 24, 2023ion 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....
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CAVCCase 01-970 — Vacated / Remanded / Granted September 13, 2004O R D E R The appellant appeals pro se an April 16, 2001, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board or BVA) decision in which the Board denied him payment of full disability compensation d...
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CAVCCase 96-1038 — Affirmed December 3, 1998Accordingly, the Board concluded that the veteran’s death was the result of willful misconduct and denied the appellant’s claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran'...
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BVACase 23029153 — Denied / Granted May 18, 2023The applicability of the reasonable doubt doctrine has been considered; however, since the preponderance of the evidence is against the claim, the benefit-of-the-doubt rule does no...
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BVACase 23062292 — Denied November 22, 2023Thus, the Board finds that VA has satisfied the duty to assist....
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CAVCCase 98-749 — Affirmed April 25, 2000On appeal, the Board found that a preponderance of the evidence was against an effective date earlier than April 7, 1992, for the appellant's TDIU benefits....
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BVACase 23052736 — Granted / Denied / Remanded September 22, 2023New and material evidence has been associated with the claims file since the prior final denial of entitlement to service connection for IBS in September 2013....
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BVACase 24028711 — Granted / Denied August 9, 2024When there is an approximate balance of positive and negative evidence regarding any issue material to the determination of the matter, the benefit of the doubt will be given to th...
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BVACase 15-975 — ReversedThe Board reopened Saun- ders’s knee claim, concluding the additional evidence she offered was new and material, but denied her claim on the merits....
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BVACase 23033183 — Granted / Denied June 9, 202319-09 786 DATE: June 9, 2023 ORDER New and material has been submitted sufficient to reopen the claim for service connection a bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) disability....
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BVACase 220321-229078 — Denied / Remanded / Granted October 29, 2024Service connection generally requires (1) medical evidence of a current disability; (2) medical or, in certain circumstances, lay evidence of an in-service incurrence or aggravatio...
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BVACase 220623-256040 — Granted / Denied / Remanded December 11, 2024In the November 2019 examiner opined the Veteran's current lumbar spine arthritis is less likely than not related to military service, reasoning the radiologic examination in 2004 ...
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CAVCCase 92-1369 — Vacated / Remanded February 14, 1996The second question is whether the Board erred in 2 denying the appellant's claim on the merits....
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DecisionCase 23063057 — Remanded November 29, 2023Additionally, the Board denied entitlement to service connection for vertigo and dismissed the increased rating claim for a residual scar, status post scalp laceration....
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DecisionCase 23030073 — Denied May 23, 2023In a June 2022 Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (Court) Joint Motion for Remand (JMR), the Court vacated the July 2021 decision and remanded the case because the April 2021 exa...
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CAVCCase 00-669 — Vacated August 7, 2002In the March 2000 BVA decision here on appeal, the Board found that, "[p]ursuant to [G....
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CAVCCase 98-1632 — Dismissed / Affirmed / Remanded / Vacated July 27, 2000Determining whether the cause of the veteran's death is service connected is a finding of fact reviewed under the "clearly erroneous" standard of review....
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BVACase 23033733 — Denied / Granted June 13, 2023Establishing 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...
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BVACase 24033637 — Denied / Granted December 2, 2024The parties agreed that remand was necessary because the Board did not address the Veteran's argument that his disability was secondary to his service-connected non-allergic rhinit...