BVA Decisions on GI
63 real veterans-appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving GI — 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 04-181 — Vacated / Remanded March 31, 2006Kent, through counsel, appeals an October 8, 2003, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board or BVA) decision that determined that he had not presented new and material evidence to reopen ...
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CAVCCase 93-644 — Dismissed / Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded April 14, 1995In 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"....
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CAVCCase 97-1971 — Granted / Affirmed / Reversed / Remanded June 3, 2003On May 29, 2001, the Federal Circuit reaffirmed that a breach of the duty to assist cannot amount to CUE and concluded that the appellant's contention that the RO's failure to adju...
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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 95-310 — Remanded / Denied / Vacated November 10, 1998sychiatric disorder, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); the Board also concluded that new and material evidence had not been presented or secured to reopen his previo...
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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 92-1391 — Remanded / Affirmed / Vacated April 8, 1994The 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...
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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 94-850 — Vacated October 7, 1996In 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....
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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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CAVCCase 90-858 — Reversed / Remanded / Denied / Granted August 19, 1992The 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...
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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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CAVCCase 95-0465 — Affirmed April 21, 1997NEBEKER, Chief Judge: The appellant, Ann Marciniak, appeals a March 27, 1995, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) which found that new and material evidence h...
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CAVCCase 96-208 — Affirmed February 1, 1999The Board determined that the veteran's death was not connected to his exposure to radiation during military service....
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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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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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CAVCCase 99-2210 — Denied December 20, 20015 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 ...
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CAVCCase 03-1251 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded December 15, 2004Duenas, who is unrepresented, appeals a May 13, 2003, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) decision in which the Board denied his claims for service connection for (1) a urinary trac...
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DecisionCase 24016401 — Denied April 17, 202416-34 356 DATE: April 17, 2024 ORDER New and material evidence has not been received; the petition to reopen a previously denied claim for service connection for a hiatal hernia is...
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CAVCCase 01-2105 — Vacated / Remanded December 23, 2004Because 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...
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CAVCCase 04-1406 — Affirmed August 16, 2006The Board concluded that although the appellant-attorney was eligible for direct payment of 20% of the past-due benefits awarded to the veteran, because the appellant-attorney was ...
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CAVCCase 91-1535 — Reversedheld that: (1) claims were properly reopened; (2) remand was required for assignment of disability rating for reopened nervous disorder claim; and (3) Board's finding that five-yea...
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CAVCCase 91-1455 — Affirmed May 12, 1993HOLDAWAY, Associate Judge: The veteran appeals a July 8, 1991, Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) decision concluding that there was no "new and material" evidence to reopen...
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BVACase 221110-294734 — Denied / Granted / Remanded December 20, 2024The 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 96-47 — Denied March 25, 1998In April 1993, after reviewing the appellant’s claim de novo, the Board denied service connection for a gastrointestinal condition....
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CAVCCase 96-1508 — Reversed / Remanded February 23, 1999His 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....
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CAVCCase 02-0682 — Reversed / RemandedIn January 1994, VA issued a Statement of the Case (SOC), which noted, among other things, that on January 28, 1993, the veteran was not service connected, that the veteran had “re...
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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 03-59 — Reversed / Remanded / Vacated / Affirmed March 22, 2005In the examination summary attached to its report, the Medical Board found that the veteran was "poorly motivated for the service and had marked increase in symptoms after being dr...
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CAVCCase 90-654 — Remanded August 19, 1991While 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...
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BVACase 220615-251909 — Denied / Granted / Remanded January 7, 2025Service Connection Generally, in order to prove service connection, there must be competent, credible evidence of (1) a current disability, (2) in-service incurrence or aggravation...
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BVACase 24016558 — Granted / Denied / Remanded April 17, 2024A grant for service connection for a disability requires: (1) a present disability or persistent or recurrent symptoms of a disability; (2) an in-service incurrence or aggravation ...
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CAVCCase 91-1948 — Vacated / Denied August 6, 1993Because the Board failed to provide adequate reasons or bases for its denial of service connection for the cause of the veteran's death and for its conclusion that the veteran was ...
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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 17-2879 — VacatedEuzebio “ha[d] not demonstrated prejudicial error in the Board’s decision to decline to obtain a medical nexus opinion” to evaluate whether Mr....
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BVACase 23045875 — Dismissed / Denied / Granted / Remanded August 17, 2023New and material evidence sufficient to reopen the claim of service connection for left shoulder impingement syndrome has not been presented....
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CAVCCase 04-743 — Unknown September 19, 2006Locklear appeals through counsel an April 12, 2004, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) decision wherein the Board denied service connection for a chest disability....
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CAVCCase 93-1098 — Affirmed April 13, 1995Barnett, appeals a September 13, 1993, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) which found that new and material evidence had not been submitted to reopen her cla...
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CAVCCase 03-2196 — Granted / Denied / Vacated / Remanded July 12, 2006In the decision on appeal, the Board denied an effective date earlier than April 15, 1992....
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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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CAVCCase 02-300 — Dismissed / Vacated / Granted August 18, 2006Rudd appeals through counsel a November 15, 2001, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) decision in which the Board denied him (1) an effective date prior to December 14, 1994, for an...
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DecisionCase 12-1182 — DismissedDeFlanders (“DeFlanders”) appeals from the decisions of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (“Veterans Court”) affirming the deci- sions of the Board of Veterans...
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BVACase 24031166 — Denied / Remanded September 26, 2024The 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...
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BVACase 210425-155589 — Denied / Remanded December 20, 2024To the extent the evidence is found in "approximate balance," the Board will afford the benefit of the doubt in favor of the Veteran....
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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 98-1275 — Affirmed / Reversed / Remanded January 12, 2000In the March 19, 1998, BVA decision here on appeal, the Board denied as not well grounded the veteran's claims for left- and right-knee and stomach disorders....
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CAVCCase 92-606 — Denied / Vacated / Remanded March 15, 1994The veteran was not service connected at the time of his death....
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BVACase 231010-383562 — Denied / Remanded March 20, 2025254, 258 (1999) (noting that the "clear and convincing" burden of proof, while a higher standard than a preponderance of the evidence, is a lower burden to satisfy than that of "cl...
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BVACase 23047753 — Dismissed / Granted / Remanded August 30, 2023A grant for service connection for a disability requires: (1) a present disability or persistent or recurrent symptoms of a disability; (2) an in-service incurrence or aggravation ...
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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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CAVCCase 96-1517 — Affirmed July 14, 19993 In the decision on appeal, the BVA found no evidence of nexus with respect to the claims for hearing loss and back disability....
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BVACase 200504-98676 — Remanded January 17, 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 receipt of the...
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CAVCCase 12-2602 — Remanded / VacatedThe VA informed Stewart that new and material evidence was required for the VA to reopen the claim....
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BVACase 22-477 — Unknownhe lack of evidence on the record demonstrating an improve- ment in his condition made the decision clearly erroneous; and, alternatively, and (2) the Court should remand for reexa...
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CAVCCase 91-277 — Affirmed May 24, 1993determined that service connection remains denied as this evidence is not considered new and material....
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BVACase 230717-367795 — Denied / Remanded November 20, 2023If evidence was submitted during the period after the AOJ issued the decision, which was subsequently subject to higher-level review the Board did not consider it in its decision....
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CAVCCase 94-589 — Denied / Affirmed September 4, 1996FARLEY, Judge: This is an appeal from a July 8, 1994, Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) decision which determined that new and material evidence sufficient to reopen a clai...
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CAVCCase 97-1057 — Affirmed November 19, 1999In the first decision, dated March 6, 1997, the Board denied the appellant's claim for service connection of the veteran's death from cardiorespiratory failure due to lung cancer a...
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BVACase 210222-137080 — Denied June 12, 2024FINDING OF FACT The Veteran's GERD is less likely than not related to the Veteran's active-duty service....
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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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BVACase 17-4845 — UnknownWith respect to the increased rating of 30 percent for Green’s service connected-dermatophytosis from August 15, 1998 to June 23, 2009, the Board found “that by resolv- ing all rea...
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BVACase 24026705 — Granted / Remanded July 17, 2024Service Connection Generally, in order to prove service connection, there must be competent, credible evidence of (1) a current disability, (2) in-service incurrence or aggravation...
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BVACase 18-1160 — VacatedThe Veterans Court, in a single-judge memorandum decision by Judge Toth, agreed with Tadlock: “Since a MUCMI, by definition, must be a diagnosed illness, deny- ing this claim becau...