BVA Decisions on Skin

61 real Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving skin. 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 22-1071 — Vacated October 31,2023
  October 2019 Board Remand and Development In an October 2019 remand order,the Board found that a new VA examination was required to address the severity of her service-connected le...
• Case 22-4960 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed December 13,2023
  The next month, another audiologist provided a negative nexus opinion....
• Case 99-179 — Vacated May 5, 2000
  Brown , appeals a January 20, 1999, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) that (1) determined that new and material evidence had not been submitted to reopen a ...
• Case 91-619 — Vacated April 10, 1991
  The issue is whether certain material findings of fact by the BVA in its October l0, l989, decision should be held unlawful and set aside because they are "clearly erroneous" under...
• Case 01-345 — Vacated June 27, 2003
  STEINBERG, Judge: The appellant, through counsel, seeks review of a November 17, 2000, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) that concluded that new and materia...
• 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 22-1803 — Unknown October 30,2023
  The veteran asserted that though he was granted service connection in March 1985 for neuropathy of the left common peroneal nerve,the March 1985 rating decision did not address ser...
• Case 08-0816 — Remanded / Vacated March 31,2011
  Fontenot , through counsel,appeals a May 7, 2008,Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied his claims for entitlement to service connection for bilateral...
• Case 95-984 — Unknown June 14, 2001
  Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) affirmed the Court's decision that the November 1972 VARO decision did not contain CUE, but remanded the matter to determ...
• Case 09-0929 — Affirmed December 12,2011
  Likins's symptomatology relating to plantar fasciitis was not related to cold exposure in service,but that his sensitivity with associated parathesias and numbness is secondary to ...
• Case 24-293 — Unknown May 30,2025
  Specifically,the Board noted that the appellant reported to have received treatment for all his claim conditions at Munson Army Health Center in Ft....
• Case 23-2641 — Vacated / Remanded July 2,2024
  Therefore, [his] skin condition is at least as likely as not related to his military service....
• Case 02-1077 — Vacated April 14, 2005
  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)]....
• Case 18-4445 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed December 30,2019
  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...
• Case 10-0397 — Affirmed
  This evaluation did not provide a medical opinion regarding a nexus between Mr....
• Case 20-1421 — Affirmed July 30,2021
  After reviewing the February 2018 examination,the Board denied the appellant service connection for his conditions based on a lack of nexus between the disabilities and service....
• Case 97-1192 — Affirmed / Vacated Sep 6, 2000
  The appellant argues as follows: (1) that the Federal Government failed to provide documentation of his exposure to Agent Orange and biological and chemical warfare agents (Argumen...
• Case 23-2108 — Vacated / Remanded April 23,2024
  The matter returned to the Board, but in August 2022,the Board determined that another remand was warranted for the RO to attempt to obtain outstanding treatment records....
• Case 21-0226 — Vacated / Remanded April 17,2023
  In the November 2020 decision on appeal,the Board denied entitlement to an effective date prior to September 5,2018,for the award of benefits for CAD....
• Case 04-181 — Vacated / Remanded March 31, 2006
  Kent, 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 ...
• Case 21-4626 — Affirmed December 8,2022
  Kershner'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....
• Case 14-0635 — Affirmed December 18,2014
  He contends that VA failed to satisfy its duty to assist him by gathering relevant documents and providing an adequate medical nexus opinion....
• Case 15-1477 — Affirmed / Remanded June 7,2016
  Decision on Appeal In the March 2015 decision on appeal,the Board determined that Mr....
• Case 08-2236 — Unknown
  Richard Hime 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”) had...
• Case 91-1665 — Vacated / Remanded March 30, 1995
  The issue presented by this appeal is whether the Secretary's imposition by regulation of a causal nexus requirement, i....
• Case 15-3362 — Affirmed June 15,2016
  Perry ,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 denied ...
• Case 98-157 — Affirmed
  In August 1984, the VARO notified the appellant that new and material evidence was required to reopen his claim....
• Case 16-2334 — Vacated / Remanded December 7,2017
  The appellant expressly asked VA why it did not consider her right hip labral tear a disability separate from her right hip bursitis....
• Case 97-1971 — Affirmed / Reversed / Remanded June 3, 2003
  On 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...
• Case 17-0010 — Vacated / Remanded January 31,2018
  The examiner determined that the lumbar strain and left 2 knee strain were at least as likely as not related to service,but found that the degenerative disc disease of the lumbar s...
• Case 23-6061 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed December 27,2024
  In May 2015,the appellant sought to reopen his claim,but the RO determined that he had not submitted new and material evidence....
• Case 20-5236 — Unknown June 21,2022
  23 The decision acknowledged the testimony that the severity of [appellant's]headaches [have]been characteristic of prostrating attacks since 2009, but the Board found that the evi...
• Case 09-4612 — Affirmed / Remanded / Vacated December 9,2011
  On May 23,1989,the Board denied a disability rating for headaches in excess of 10%....
• Case 13-0949 — Vacated / Remanded September 8,2014
  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...
• Case 96-1726 — Reversed / Vacated OctoberOctober 65, 1998
  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...
• Case 22-6636 — Vacated / Remanded February 21,2025
  at 920,and opined that the appellant's hypertension was not related to his sinusitis....
• Case 78-144 — Vacated / Remanded March 31, 2006
  Wagner [ View ] [ Download ] [ Details ] Previous document | Next document had t presented new and material evidence to reopen his previously and finally denied claims Kent 04-181....
• Case 14-1940 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed September 22,2015
  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...
• Case 13-3414 — Affirmed September 19,2014
  SCHOELEN, Judge :The pro se appellant, Arturo Ramirez , appeals a September 19,2013, Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied his claims for disability c...
• Case 23-5928 — Unknown February 20,2025
  PIETSCH, Judge :The appellant appeals the June 16, 2023,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied the appellant's claims for entitlement to service connec...
• Case 18-4075 — Vacated / Remanded November 30,2020
  Additionally,the Board found that a December 1999 rating decision denying service connection for right thigh hematoma residuals was final;found that the appellant submitted new and...
• Case 23-2415 — Vacated / Remanded June 28,2024
  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 ...
• Case 07-1699 — Affirmed / Vacated February 3,2009
  Melo ,appeals a May 24,2007,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied her claims for (1) entitlement to service connection for the cause of her husband's ...
• Case 12-0444 — Vacated / Affirmed / Remanded March 29,2013
  In the other decision,the Board denied entitlement to disability compensation for back and left leg disabilities,finding that the appellant's back condition is not related to servi...
• Case 24-7617 — Vacated / Remanded September 30,2025
  At a VA skin conditions examination the same month,the examiner diagnosed tinea pedis with a 1969 date of onset but did not opine as to nexus....
• Case 13-3039 — Vacated / Remanded April 30,2015
  An October 1993 rating decision found,inter alia,that the information submitted did not constitute new and material evidence sufficient to reopen the claim....
• Case 14-2811 — Unknown
  Kisor’s case, the Board concluded that two ser- vice department records, which were received in 2006 and 2007, were not “relevant” under the regulation because they did not pertain...
• Case 10-2595 — Vacated / Remanded February 6,2012
  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....
• Case 24-6198 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed July 30,2025
  The appellant underwent a VA scar examination in September 2021, and the examiner opined that the scars documented in previous VA examination reports and the recurrent carbuncles w...
• Case 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...
• Case 21-5002 — Remanded / Vacated January 6,2023
  Whether a medical opinion is adequate is a finding of fact,which this Court reviews under the 'clearly erroneous'standard....
• Case 95-673 — 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...
• Case 14-2952 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded July 23,2015
  For the reasons that follow, the Court will vacate the Board's June 2014 decision denying entitlement to service connection for sleep apnea to the extent that the Board did not add...
• Case 06-7279 — Affirmed / Remanded / Vacated May 11, 2007
  Hunt , through counsel, appeals a BOOKMARK/ September 1, 2005, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) decision in which the Board denied his claims for service connection for a headach...
• Case 14-0396 — Affirmed May 27,2015
  He contends that the Board erred in finding that he was not entitled to a presumption of service connection under 38 U....
• Case 19-2253 — Vacated / Remanded August 19,2020
  In March 2011,the VA regional office (RO) denied the claims for a skin condition and bilateral hearing loss, finding that they were not service connected....
• Case 18-2837 — Remanded August 9,2019
  Because the Board did not ensure that VA satisfied its duty to assist and failed to provide an adequate statement of its reasons or bases for denying appellant's claims, we will se...
• Case 13-3507 — Affirmed September 17,2015
  Woods-Calhoun argues that the Board erred in its (1)threshold determination that she was not credible,and (2) determinations to deny benefits....
• Case 15-4258 — Vacated / Remanded February 3,2017
  In the August 2015 decision on appeal,the Board denied service connection for hepatitis C....
• Case 20-7929 — Vacated / Remanded September 30,2022
  PIETSCH, Judge :The appellant appeals the September 16,2020, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied the claim for entitlement to a total rating due to...