BVA Decisions on Hip

70 real veterans-appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving hip — 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 23-2243 — Remanded 2023-03-28
  The Court will vacate the part of the Board's decision that failed to address the appellant's argument in his December 2021 NOD that he was entitled to compensation for unrated man...
• CAVCCase 94-503 — Affirmed 1997-11-05
  The appellant, 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 determ...
• CAVCCase 11-0325 — Affirmed 2011-01-03
  The appellant appears to argue that the Board's determinations that he was not entitled to VA benefits for a left knee disability,sling palsy,and trauma to the left side of the wai...
• CAVCCase 14-1297 — Affirmed 2014-04-04
  The Board remanded the bilateral knee claim with instructions that VA obtain private treatment records and provide the appellant with a medical examination and opinion as to whethe...
• CAVCCase 21-3714 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2021-04-12
  In his brief,the appellant argued that the Board erred in relying on a medical opinion premised on medical treatises,without addressing the probative value of the opinion in light ...
• CAVCCase 07-0882 — Vacated / Remanded 2006-11-28
  , through counsel,appeals a November 28,2006,Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied his claim for entitlement to service connection for left and right...
• CAVCCase 94-0927 — Affirmed / Reversed 1992-02-21
  As was the case in Ramey, the BVA decision here was issued prior to the Combee opinion, and the BVA failed to address the question of direct service connection....
• 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 21-7788 — Vacated / Remanded 2021-08-13
  The RO also denied the petition to reopen the claim for service connection for chronic fatigue syndrome and explained that the evidence submitted in connection with the current cla...
• 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 11-0243 — Vacated / Affirmed / Remanded 2010-09-28
  HOLDAWAY, Judge :The appellant appeals the September 28,2010,decision of the Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)that determined that new and material evidence had not been received t...
• 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 94-1080 — Affirmed / Vacated 1996-11-26
  Subsequently, the RO and then the Board denied service connection for residuals of a head injury....
• CAVCCase 12-0603 — Affirmed 2012-01-09
  The Board noted that VA had not provided the appellant with a medical examination and opinion regarding whether his hip disorder is related to service (nexus opinion)to assist in e...
• CAVCCase 92-1347 — Affirmed 1944-03-09
  The appellant, 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 d...
• CAVCCase 15-2247 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2015-05-14
  The appellant ,appeals through counsel a May 14, 2015,decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board)that,among other things, denied service connection for a back disability aft...
• CAVCCase 22-491 — Unknown 2021-09-28
  3 Because the Board failed to provide an adequate statement of reasons or bases supporting its findings denying service connection for both a psychiatric disability and OSA, and be...
• CAVCCase 12-3649 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2011-06-09
  As an initial matter,the Board found that VA had satisfied its duty to assist because (1)VA had obtained the veteran's SMRs and there was no indication in the record that additiona...
• CAVCCase 14-0328 — Affirmed 2013-11-19
  The appellant ,through counsel,appeals a November 19,2013,Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied his claim for disability compensation for peroneal ne...
• 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...
• Fed. Cir.Case 08-2236 — Unknown 2011-09-15
  The appellant appeals from the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (“the Veter- ans Court”) holding that the Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) ha...
• CAVCCase 23-5933 — Vacated / Remanded 2025-05-30
  In July 2019, the Board denied service connection for a right hip condition and degenerative arthritis of the right knee....
• CAVCCase 91-1288 — Unknown 1945-12-10
  KRAMER, Judge: the appellant appeals the April 15, 1991, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) which determined that new and material evidence had not been subm...
• CAVCCase 09-3181 — Vacated / Affirmed 2009-04-30
  Because the Board failed to ensure compliance with its September 2007 remand order regarding the appellant....
• CAVCCase 15-4758 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2015-08-24
  The Board also granted the appellant's claim for entitlement to service connection for bilateral tinnitus and assigned a disability rating of 10%and reopened and remanded his claim...
• CAVCCase 17-0035 — Vacated / Remanded 2016-11-25
  The examiner diagnosed the appellant with GERD with a date of diagnosis of 1989,concluding that such disability is less likely than not related to a specific exposure event ....
• CAVCCase 20-4336 — Affirmed 2020-05-19
  To the extent the Board denied a rating higher than 20%,the appellant does not raise any argument concerning that matter,and the Court will also dismiss the appeal as to that aband...
• 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 18-6734 — Affirmed 2018-11-01
  In the decision here on appeal the Board denied service connection for each of the claimed conditions....
• CAVCCase 21-0372 — Vacated / Remanded 2020-10-07
  Also,in denying a higher rating for coronary artery disease,the Board noted that the appellant's reporting of his symptoms is credible....
• CAVCCase 11-2889 — Affirmed 2011-08-05
  Specifically,the Board denied (1)the PTSD claim because there was no evidence of a diagnosis of PTSD (R....
• CAVCCase 15-3362 — Affirmed 2015-08-24
  The appellant ,appeals pro se an August 24,2015, Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision that found that new and material evidence had not been submitted to reopen his previously...
• CAVCCase 16-2334 — Vacated / Remanded 2016-04-12
  The appellant expressly asked VA why it did not consider her right hip labral tear a disability separate from her right hip bursitis....
• 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 96-1726 — Reversed / Vacated 1996-12-04
  In the BVA decision here on appeal, the Board denied his claims on the basis that his claims for hypertension and muscular atrophy were not well grounded and denied service connect...
• CAVCCase 09-3437 — Remanded / Vacated 2009-06-29
  Credibility Determination In his brief,the appellant makes several arguments with respect to his claim of entitlement to service connection for a left hip disability....
• CAVCCase 09-1567 — Reversed / Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2009-02-28
  The Court concludes that the Board erred in referring, rather than remanding or adjudicating the dental claim....
• CAVCCase 09-1145 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2007-06-27
  Service-Connection Claims Establishing service connection generally requires (1)medical evidence of a current disability;(2)medical or,in certain circumstances, lay evidence of inc...
• CAVCCase 13-1865 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2013-05-22
  In the second decision on appeal (Decision 2),the Board denied the appellant....
• CAVCCase 13-3414 — Affirmed 2013-09-19
  SCHOELEN, Judge :The pro se the appellant , appeals a September 19,2013, Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied his claims for disability compensation ...
• CAVCCase 23-2883 — Vacated / Remanded 2024-06-28
  The Court remands the claim for service connection for a low back disability because,as the Secretary concedes,the Board erred by relying on inadequate VA opinions....
• CAVCCase 20-2734 — Unknown 2020-03-03
  2 In the March 2020 decision on appeal, the Board found that the appellant....
• CAVCCase 03-1575 — Affirmed / Vacated 2003-05-30
  The appellant appeals, through counsel, a May 30, 2003, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) decision that found that new and material evidence had not been presented to reopen his p...
• CAVCCase 13-1860 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2013-05-15
  In January 2012,the Board denied entitlement to a disability rating in excess of 10%for degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine prior to June 27,2006,and a disability rating ...
• CAVCCase 17-0731 — Affirmed / Remanded 2017-02-06
  The examiner also concluded that the appellant's urinary frequency is not related to her back disability....
• CAVCCase 13-3039 — Vacated / Remanded 1953-12-09
  An October 1993 rating decision found,inter alia,that the information submitted did not constitute new and material evidence sufficient to reopen the claim....
• CAVCCase 22-2229 — Unknown 2021-12-20
  Based on the evaluation,the examiner determined that the claimed cervical spine condition is less likely than not related to military service....
• CAVCCase 09-2648 — Vacated / Remanded 2009-04-02
  SCHOELEN, Judge :the appellant ,appeals through counsel an April 2,2009,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision that (1)found that there exists no new and material evidence suffi...
• BVACase 22061364 — Remanded 2022-11-02
  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 15-0540 — Vacated / Remanded 2014-12-09
  In the December 2014 decision here on appeal,the Board found that a disability rating in excess of 30% was not warranted....
• CAVCCase 10-2595 — Vacated / Remanded 2010-07-23
  In October 2009,the appellant was provided a VA medical examination to analyze whether there is a nexus between his current disabilities and his service....
• CAVCCase 11-2345 — Vacated / Remanded 2011-04-28
  On October 2,1980,the Board denied the appellant's headache claim....
• CAVCCase 92-970 — Unknown 1996-04-17
  On 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...
• 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 24-6435 — Reversed / Remanded / Vacated / Affirmed 1983-02-23
  The shoulder examiner concluded that the appellant's left shoulder condition was less likely than not related to service....
• CAVCCase 03-1345 — Vacated / Remanded 2006-01-26
  He argues that the Board decision is clearly erroneous and should be reversed....
• CAVCCase 19-0734 — Unknown 2019-01-23
  3 Because the Board failed to provide an adequate statement of its reasons or bases,we set aside its decision concerning appellant's claims for bilateral hip disorder,bilateral low...
• CAVCCase 13-2827 — Vacated / Remanded 2013-09-09
  The appellant does not present any argument concerning the Board's denial of an evaluation in excess of 10%for residuals of a right inguinal hernia or the finding that he had not s...
• CAVCCase 24-0585 — Unknown 2025-01-22
  November 2023 Board Decision In the November 2023 decision on appeal,the Board denied service connection for a lumbar spine disability,finding that it did not manifest in service o...
• CAVCCase 21-5184 — Affirmed 2021-06-02
  In July 2011,the appellant underwent a VA peripheral nerves examination;the examiner diagnosed lumbar degenerative disc disease with right lower extremity sciatica and opined that ...
• CAVCCase 22-2326 — Vacated / Remanded 2022-02-25
  The examiner opined that his right shoulder disability was not related to service or his service-connected left shoulder disability....
• CAVCCase 09-0610 — Affirmed 2008-12-15
  ANALYSIS A Board determination of the appropriate degree of disability under the rating code is a finding of fact subject to the clearly erroneous standard of review....
• CAVCCase 14-3690 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2014-07-16
  The Board found the February 2009 examination inadequate because the examiner failed to provide an opinion regarding whether the appellant's bilateral leg and neck conditions were ...
• CAVCCase 20-6699 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2020-05-28
  She opined that the appellant's left foot and back problems were more likely than not related to his military service....
• CAVCCase 22-6158 — Unknown 2025-08-14
  The appellant's assertion that the Board failed to provide an adequate statement of reasons or bases for its decision denying his claims....
• CAVCCase 20-3713 — Remanded / Vacated 2020-03-31
  It also failed to ensure VA met its duty to assist the veteran in obtaining a VA medical examination....
• CAVCCase 11-3001 — Affirmed 2011-09-21
  In March 2001,the RO denied the appellant's request to reopen his claim because there was no medical nexus evidence....
• CAVCCase 21-7855 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2021-10-25
  On October 25,2021,the Board denied entitlement to disability compensation for a right hip condition,obstructive sleep apnea,and an acquired psychiatric condition and denied an ini...
• CAVCCase 24-4772 — Affirmed 2025-05-23
  at 7,and that [t]he evidence of record is littered with favorable evidence that the Board should fully and sympathetically develop,giving all benefit of the doubt to the [appellant...