BVA Decisions on Knee

116 real veterans-appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving knee — 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 90-1360 — Unknown March 1, 1993
  The appellant asserts that, although he did not submit evidence that was "new and material", under the precedents of this Court, so as to reopen his previously and finally denied c...
• 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 94-0927 — Affirmed / Reversed January 27, 1997
  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 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 91-1288 — Denied May 27, 1994
  KRAMER, 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...
• 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 94-322 — Remanded May 14, 1996
  A July 1992 RO decision on remand from the Board concluded that the evidence of record 7 did not "establish that [the appellant] met the definition of insanity as provided in 38 C....
• BVACase 240530-443263 — Denied / Remanded April 15, 2025
  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...
• 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 98-772 — Affirmed September 20, 1999
  In a rating decision of November 1994, the VA regional office (RO) confirmed and continued the denial of the appellant's claim for service connection for residuals of a head injury...
• CAVCCase 95-673 — Denied / Affirmed April 9, 1997
  FARLEY, Judge: This is an appeal from an April 4, 1995, decision of the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (BVA or Board) which determined that new and material evidence had not been submi...
• CAVCCase 03-1345 — Vacated / Remanded January 26, 2006
  He argues that the Board decision is clearly erroneous and should be reversed....
• BVACase 23029996 — Dismissed / Denied / Granted / Remanded May 23, 2023
  The 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...
• CAVCCase 95-310 — Remanded / Denied / Vacated November 10, 1998
  sychiatric 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 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 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 02-1012 — Remanded / Vacated September 3, 2004
  Army Environmental Support Group (ESG) informed the RO that both Chu Lai and Landing Zone English were attacked in 1967, but that, in order for the ESG to provide further research ...
• 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...
• 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 04-0233 — Affirmed / Remanded July 13, 2006
  The Board found that "the veteran has failed to submit, and the Board is unable to obtain (short of finding a physician who witnessed both accidents) persuasive and competent evide...
• CAVCCase 01-575 — Reversed / Vacated July 11, 2003
  In November 1995, the Board reopened the veteran's claim based on new and material evidence, including a February 1977 VA medical record noting that the veteran had told a physicia...
• 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...
• BVACase 25002467 — Denied February 20, 2025
  Thus, the Board finds that VA has satisfied the duty to assist....
• CAVCCase 96-1596 — Granted / Affirmed September 8, 1998
  FARLEY, Judge: This is an appeal from an October 16, 1996, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) which found that the veteran had failed to submit new and mater...
• CAVCCase 90-1218 — Vacated March 2, 1993
  Watson appeals a July 9, 1990, Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) decision which denied his previously disallowed claim for service connection for Buerger's disease on the g...
• 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 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 ...
• BVACase 23006286 — Denied / Remanded February 1, 2023
  The Veteran's cervical spine disability is not related to his active service....
• BVACase 23035794 — Denied June 23, 2023
  Addressing the Concerns of the January 2020 Joint Motion The January 2020 Joint Motion in this case states: "The parties agree that remand is required in this case because the Boar...
• BVACase 221110-294734 — Denied / Granted / Remanded December 20, 2024
  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 91-87 — 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 03-1276 — Remanded / Vacated / Reversed August 5, 2005
  A December 30, 2002, Board decision denied the appellant's claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death; the Board found that "[n]o service-connected disabilit...
• BVACase 220615-252249 — Granted / Denied / Remanded August 25, 2025
  e present disability and the disease or injury incurred or aggravated during service-the so-called "nexus" requirement....
• 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 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 03-59 — Reversed / Remanded / Vacated / Affirmed March 22, 2005
  In 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...
• CAVCCase 02-885 — Vacated March 29, 2005
  , appeals through counsel an April 3, 2002, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) decision wherein the Board denied him entitlement to compensation under 38 U....
• CAVCCase 90-196 — Reversed March 8, 1991
  HOLDAWAY, Associate Judge: This case concerns an appeal of a Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA) decision that the veteran had not submitted evidence that was both new and material wi...
• BVACase 220615-251909 — Denied / Granted / Remanded January 7, 2025
  Service 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...
• CAVCCase 91-1948 — Vacated / Denied August 6, 1993
  Because 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 ...
• 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....
• CAVCCase 93-289 — Affirmed April 6, 1995
  The Board denied the appellant's claim and she filed a timely appeal to this Court....
• 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 95-444 — Denied March 21, 1997
  A 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...
• 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....
• DecisionCase 12-1182 — Dismissed
  DeFlanders (“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...
• BVACase 08-3238 — Unknown
  Darlington was entitled to a medical nexus opinion....
• 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...
• 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...
• CAVCCase 96-619 — Vacated June 14, 1999
  The appellant argued in his brief that the Board had failed (1) to make a finding of fact as to the varicose veins above his knees; (2) to carry out its duty to assist pursuant to ...
• CAVCCase 90-548 — Granted / Remanded / Vacated September 5, 1991
  On March 13, 1989, the RO rating board concluded that "[t]he evidence does not warrant a change in the [10-percent rating for the] veteran's SC [service-connected] pes planus....
• BVACase 23029153 — Denied / Granted May 18, 2023
  The 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...
• BVACase 23043749 — Granted / Remanded August 6, 2023
  19-26 425A DATE: August 6, 2023 ORDER New and material evidence has been received to reopen the claim for service connection for a left knee disability....
• BVACase 210425-155589 — Denied / Remanded December 20, 2024
  To the extent the evidence is found in "approximate balance," the Board will afford the benefit of the doubt in favor of the Veteran....
• CAVCCase 93-595 — Denied August 11, 1995
  FARLEY, Judge: This is an appeal from a March 2, 1993, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) which declined to reopen the appellant's claim for service connecti...
• CAVCCase 98-1275 — Affirmed / Reversed / Remanded January 12, 2000
  In 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....