BVA Decisions on Diabetes

58 real veterans-appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving diabetes — 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 18-1103 — Vacated / Remanded 2018-01-18
  The examiner also noted that the appellant had described the severity of his PTSD as mild,but the examiner gave the appellant the benefit of the doubt that his symptoms wax and wan...
• CAVCCase 24-1022 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2025-06-30
  The Board noted that neither the veteran nor his representative alleged any error with VA's duty to assist or a lack of substantial compliance with the September 2022 Board remand ...
• CAVCCase 22-4960 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2022-04-27
  The next month, another audiologist provided a negative nexus opinion....
• CAVCCase 14-3126 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2014-09-04
  As an initial matter,the Board found that VA had satisfied its duty to assist because VA had conducted all development necessary to substantiate the claims....
• CAVCCase 17-3598 — Vacated / Remanded 2017-06-13
  The appellant , through counsel,appeals a June 13,2017,Board of Veteran's Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied service connection for an inguinal hernia and back disab...
• CAVCCase 23-6519 — Granted 2025-01-17
  In an April 2003 rating decision,the RO found no new and material evidence to reopen a claim for a right knee condition....
• CAVCCase 23-0038 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2022-05-09
  In response to a claim received on March 15,2018, 4 a VA regional office (RO) denied service connection for both diabetes and anxiety based on a lack of new and material evidence,a...
• CAVCCase 12-885 — Vacated / Remanded 2011-11-22
  In doing so,the Board found that the appellant's military occupational specialty and personnel records ....
• CAVCCase 14-1556 — Vacated / Remanded 2014-04-18
  3 In September 2009,the veteran underwent a VA spine examination,where a VA examiner opined that the veteran's current low back pain was less likely than not related to service,cit...
• CAVCCase 23-0092 — Vacated / Remanded 2022-11-17
  The Board found that the April 2015 VA medical opinion address[ing]whether the [v]eteran's current endocrine conditions and hypertension were related to his service-connected diabe...
• CAVCCase 13-580 — Vacated / Remanded 2013-01-10
  5103A(a), whether the Secretary's duty to assist required VA to obtain a medical opinion (R....
• CAVCCase 23-527 — Vacated / Remanded 2024-07-31
  A separate medical opinion completed by the same psychologist provided a negative nexus and stated that the [e]xaminer sees no evidence of [m]emory [l]oss....
• CAVCCase 18-5936 — Remanded / Vacated 2018-07-02
  l the negative clinical opinions of record that found that appellant's right shoulder disability is not service connected....
• CAVCCase 02-1077 — Vacated 2005-04-14
  In an addendum, the VA physician opined: This veteran's CAD is more likely than not related to both his long[]standing smoking and his [hypertension (HPT)]....
• CAVCCase 24-0597 — Reversed 2025-04-29
  In a July 2010 Statement of the Case (SOC),the AOJ again declined to reopen claims for service connection for a bilateral knee condition and back condition,finding no new and mater...
• CAVCCase 18-4445 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2018-04-20
  First,we are asked to decide whether the Board failed to discuss medical evidence showing that PVD of the left lower extremity had first manifested in January 2006 warranting an ea...
• CAVCCase 23-1100 — Vacated / Remanded 2024-08-29
  at 703-04 (determining that a May 2021 VA medical opinion did not comply with the prior remand in part because the examiner did not address the appellant's weight changes);R....
• CAVCCase 17-0995 — Vacated / Remanded 2017-02-08
  After finding that VA had satisfied its duty to assist by obtaining various post-service medical records and providing adequate examinations relevant to each disability,R....
• CAVCCase 21-4626 — Affirmed 2021-05-04
  The appellant's conditions were not related to either his chemical exposure or service in any way because carpal tunnel has nothing to do with external occupational exposures....
• CAVCCase 17-3439 — Affirmed / Reversed / Remanded 2019-08-09
  155 (2017): 2 (1)entitlement to a total disability rating based on 1 There is no dispute between the parties that, when the Board determined that no further action is necessary,....
• CAVCCase 24-2039 — Unknown 2025-05-07
  The Secretary concedes the Board erred in denying a TDIU....
• CAVCCase 12-2187 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2012-03-21
  The appellant's current hearing loss was less likely as not related to or caused by in-service noise exposure....
• CAVCCase 23-0107 — Unknown 2022-11-21
  And the Board recognized that the veteran was competent to report his symptoms and to report,years after separation, when he was diagnosed with arthritis,but the Board found that t...
• CAVCCase 19-8155 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2019-08-13
  In his informal brief, the appellant does not challenge the Board's denial of an earlier effective date for the award of benefits of bilateral instability of the knees,or the Board...
• CAVCCase 22-0257 — Remanded / Affirmed / Vacated 2021-11-26
  On November 26,2021,the Board found that new and relevant evidence had not been submitted to warrant readjudication of the claims for disability compensation for tinnitus and erect...
• CAVCCase 24-0638 — Vacated / Remanded 2025-03-24
  The appellant argues that the Board erred by (1)failing to address favorable evidence and to lay a proper foundation for denying service connection for tinnitus;(2)failing to discu...
• CAVCCase 17-1531 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2017-03-28
  In addition, the Board denied entitlement to higher evaluations for bilateral lower extremity peripheral neuropathy as well as entitlement to earlier effective dates for the awards...
• CAVCCase 15-0594 — Reversed / Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2014-12-09
  He appeals,through counsel,a December 9,2014, Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision that denied entitlement to service connection for right hand arthritis and determined that n...
• CAVCCase 21-4066 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2021-05-22
  In the May 2021 decision here on appeal, the Board denied the appellant....
• CAVCCase 06-488 — Vacated 2005-12-30
  HAGEL, Judge : the appellant appeals through counsel a December 30, 2005, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) decision in which the Board denied service connection for post- traumat...
• CAVCCase 23-5480 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2024-12-30
  The Board also found that new and material evidence had not been received and therefore declined to reopen a previously denied claim for disability compensation for an acquired psy...
• CAVCCase 23-6061 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2024-12-27
  In May 2015,the appellant sought to reopen his claim,but the RO determined that he had not submitted new and material evidence....
• CAVCCase 13-0949 — Vacated / Remanded 2013-02-28
  Although most of his service medical records (SMRs)were destroyed in the 1973 fire at the 1 The Board also remanded the issue of whether new and material evidence had been received...
• CAVCCase 24-6361 — Dismissed 2026-01-06
  The Board noted that the RO had not afforded the veteran a medical examination to determine whether his bilateral hand osteoarthritis was related to service,but the Board found no ...
• CAVCCase 14-1940 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2014-04-16
  In July 2007,the Board denied a higher initial disability evaluation for right CTS but remanded the cervical strain and onychomycosis claims for additional development in complianc...
• CAVCCase 20-7943 — Vacated / Remanded 2020-07-24
  Many of these conditions couldbe service connected on a presumptive,direct,or secondary basis upon demonstration that the veteran served in Vietnam � but the Board failed to adequa...
• CAVCCase 16-2080 — Affirmed 2016-05-20
  In April 2009, the RO denied reopening the schizophrenia claim,indicating that evidence reviewed included October 1976 to April 2008 treatment records,which were not new and materi...
• CAVCCase 24-0265 — Remanded 2025-05-14
  In a September 2015 male-reproductive-system examination,the examiner found no current disability....
• CAVCCase 09-3980 — Vacated / Remanded 2009-08-03
  Because the Board failed to provide an adequate statement of its reasons or bases for rejecting favorable lay evidence of record and failed to ensure that VA satisfied its duty to ...
• CAVCCase 24-7841 — Remanded / Vacated / Affirmed 2025-09-30
  In May 2023,the Board denied entitlement to (1)an effective date prior to December 9, 2014,for the award of benefits for bilateral lower extremity radiculopathy;(2) a rating in exc...
• CAVCCase 21-1298 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2020-11-12
  3 He underwent a VA eye examination in March 2017,and the examiner found that the appellant's glaucoma requires continual treatment and that the appellant has advanced visual field...
• CAVCCase 08-2682 — Remanded / Affirmed / Vacated 2008-05-16
  In the decision here on appeal,the Board denied entitlement to service connection for PTSD, bilateral flat feet,a left ankle condition,right ear hearing loss,and tinnitus because i...
• CAVCCase 23-2415 — Vacated / Remanded 2024-06-28
  In a September 2019 decision,the Board acknowledged that the appellant had submitted a wide variety of articles and documents concerning the use and storage of herbicide agents at ...
• CAVCCase 07-3060 — Unknown 2010-03-25
  The principal issue before the Court is whether VA fulfilled its duty to assist by obtaining two VA medical examinations in which the examiners concluded that they were unable to r...
• CAVCCase 24-4780 — Vacated / Remanded 2025-10-22
  The parties further agreed that the Board failed to address whether the appellant's macular degeneration was caused by in-service exposure to Agent Orange....
• CAVCCase 19-2158 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2019-01-10
  To the extent that the Board denied entitlement to an effective date earlier than February 4,2007,for the 50%rating for PTSD,the appellant raises no arguments challenging that deci...
• CAVCCase 23-5497 — Unknown 2024-12-10
  3 Case:23-5497 Page: 4 of 13 Filed:12/10/2024 VA sent the appellant a duty to assist notice letter in July 2019 which included the forms he was required to complete to apply for a ...
• CAVCCase 19-5367 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2019-04-16
  1 For the reasons that follow, the Court will set aside 1 In the same decision,the Board denied service connection for sleep apnea and a toenail fungus; denied entitlement to an in...
• CAVCCase 07-3547 — Affirmed / Remanded / Vacated 2007-10-30
  The appellant appeals through counsel an October 30,2007,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board determined that a June 6,2000,Board decision had subsumed a Ju...
• CAVCCase 20-0523 — Vacated / Remanded 2019-12-03
  APPELLANT'S ARGUMENTS On appeal,the appellant argues that the Board failed in its duty to assist because it did not obtain relevant Social Security Administration (SSA)records....
• CAVCCase 95-199 — Unknown 1946-05-10
  STEINBERG, Judge : The pro se appellant, the veteran appeals a September 1, 1992, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board or BVA) decision that determined that new and material evidence ...
• CAVCCase 92-622 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 1995-03-06
  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 23-827 — Unknown 2022-12-30
  PIETSCH, Judge :the appellantthrough counsel, appeals the December 30,2022,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board) decision in which the Board denied effective dates earlier than January...
• CAVCCase 14-0751 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2013-11-27
  The examiner opined that the appellant's current symptoms were not related to his in-service injury....
• CAVCCase 04-0140 — Affirmed 2006-09-11
  In May 1982, a VA regional office (RO) denied him entitlement to service connection for his heart-related conditions on the grounds that there was no evidence in his service medica...
• CAVCCase 10-4097 — Affirmed 2010-09-20
  First,he contends that the Board erred in rejecting the lay statement of fellow soldier,Ray Hermosura,based upon its conclusion that the appellant was not credible....
• CAVCCase 18-0901 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2017-11-15
  In the November 2017 decision on appeal, the Board denied the claims on appeal....
• CAVCCase 13-3507 — Affirmed 2013-07-02
  The appellant argues that the Board erred in its (1)threshold determination that she was not credible,and (2) determinations to deny benefits....