BVA Decisions on Respiratory

22 real Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving respiratory. Each links to the full decision, reasoning, and citations.

• Case 21-2416 — Affirmed March 31,2022
  In January 2020,the Board denied the claim for an effective date earlier than December 13, 2005,for service connection for bronchial asthma....
• Case 22-6596 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed October 5,2023
  Higgins , through counsel appeals a November 17,2021, Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision denying disability compensation for bilateral hearing loss and determining that new ...
• Case 17-0002 — Reversed / Remanded July 20,2017
  In May 1998,less than two months after the RO's initial denial of service connection for lung cancer,the RO sent the veteran a letter erroneously instructing him that he needed to ...
• Case 22-2306 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded September 29,2023
  Silberstein , through counsel,appeals a December 29,2021,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied service connection for (1)asthma,manifested by shortnes...
• Case 14-1556 — Vacated / Remanded May 19,2015
  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...
• Case 08-3802 — Affirmed November 8,2010
  Because the Board's findings that VA complied with its duty to assist and provided adequate medical examinations were not clearly erroneous,and because the Board provided an adequa...
• Case 91-504 — Unknown October 5, 1994
  In 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....
• Case 16-3128 — Affirmed October 23, 2017
  Fluellen ,appeals through counsel a July 11,2016,decision of the Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)that,among other things,(1) determined that the appellant had not submitted new an...
• Case 24-7144 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded January 15,2026
  He underwent an examination the following month;the VA examiner diagnosed moderate-to-severe triscaphe joint osteoarthritis,but she opined that the condition was less likely than n...
• Case 10-0826 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed August 31,2011
  clearly erred in concluding that VA satisfied its duty to assist Mr....
• Case 23-6327 — Unknown January 31,2025
  For bradycardia,the Board found that the condition did not manifest in service or the 1-year period following service, and it concluded that bradycardia was not attributable to ser...
• Case 13-2506 — Remanded / Affirmed August 11,2014
  Glover,through counsel,appeals a July 3, 2013,Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied his claims for disability compensation for tinnitus,hearing loss,...
• Case 19-3367 — Vacated / Affirmed November 3,2020
  We are first asked to decide whether the Board erred in upholding the propriety of the rating reduction for hearing loss....
• Case 17-4413 — Affirmed January 28,2019
  In November 2014,the Board found that the October 2012 VA examination report was not fully responsive to its June 2011 remand directives,which had instructed the examiner to consid...
• Case 24-2811 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded July 9,2025
  Thereafter,in September 2018,the Board found that the appellant had submitted new and material evidence to reopen his previously denied claims for mononucleosis (also claimed as to...
• Case 08-1627 — Affirmed / Vacated August 10,2010
  Mezo's rhinitis and chronic sinusitis were allergic in nature and were not related to the blood transfusion he received during service....
• Case 19-4604 — Vacated December 21,2020
  The Board noted diagnoses of asthma in June and November of 2012 and found that the appellant had a present disability;stated that the appellant was presumed sound when he entered ...
• Case 09-3092 — Vacated / Affirmed / Reversed June 24,2011
  Wiggins ,appeals an August 10,2009, Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision that determined that new and material evidence had not been submitted to reopen the appellant's claim ...
• Case 21-1308 — Affirmed September 16,2022
  Thomas , appeals a November 12,2020,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied (1)service connection for a lumbar spine disorder;(2)service connection for ...
• Case 24-3854 — Unknown September 23,2025
  February 2024 Board Decision In the February 2024 decision on appeal, the Board denied service connection for a right ankle condition....
• Case 13-2352 — Affirmed December 22,2014
  The appellant appealed this denial to the Board and,in March 2003,the Board denied entitlement to disability compensation for sleep apnea and a disability manifested by generalized...
• Case 10-3161 — Affirmed September 21,2011
  at 456),and in April 2006,the RO advised him that the November 2005 rating decision was not final because the appeal period had not expired but that he needed to submit new and mat...