BVA Decisions on Sleep Apnea

60 real veterans-appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving sleep apnea — 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 24-1022 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2025-06-30
  The Board noted that neither the veteran nor his representative alleged any error with VA's duty to assist or a lack of substantial compliance with the September 2022 Board remand ...
• CAVCCase 23-2226 — Remanded 2024-07-31
  The appellant ,through counsel,appeals a March 3,2023, Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied entitlement to service connection for (1)obstructive slee...
• CAVCCase 23-5618 — Affirmed 2024-11-25
  McDonough ,the appellant argues that remand is required for the Board to use the correct test for 'employment in a protected environment,'that his employment did or did not shield ...
• CAVCCase 23-5486 — Denied / Remanded 2025-03-31
  In April 2021,the Board remanded the case for an additional medical opinion, noting that the October 2020 medical opinion did not address the questions posed in the Board's remand ...
• CAVCCase 10-1267 — Remanded / Affirmed / Reversed / Vacated 2010-04-05
  , through counsel,appeals an April 5, 2010,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied the appellant's claims to reopen a previously denied claim for servic...
• CAVCCase 19-8927 — Unknown 2019-08-20
  The appellant ,through counsel, appeals an August 20,2019,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board found no clear and unmistakable error (CUE)in an October 16,1...
• CAVCCase 17-3373 — Affirmed 2017-07-21
  The Board found that service connection was not warranted because the appellant did not exhibit a bilateral hearing loss disability for VA purposes....
• CAVCCase 23-4298 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2024-06-06
  Additionally,the Board awarded disability compensation for pseudofolliculitis barbae and found that new and material evidence had been submitted to reopen claims for disability com...
• CAVCCase 23-5851 — Remanded / Vacated 2024-11-27
  The accompanying medical opinions concluded that the veteran's left and right foot conditions were less likely than not related to service because there was [n]o chronic evaluation...
• CAVCCase 18-4571 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 1992-08-24
  The Board also determined that new and material evidence had not been received and therefore declined to reopen previously denied claims for benefits for right ear hearing loss and...
• CAVCCase 23-2629 — Vacated / Remanded 2024-05-20
  The examiner determined that the appellant's condition was less likely than not related to service and provided the following rationale: No chronic diagnosis is made for thyroidism...
• 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 21-3588 — Unknown 2021-03-18
  March 2021 Board Decision In the March 2021 decision on appeal,the Board noted that in September 2020,the veteran had timely appealed a September 2019 rating decision and requested...
• CAVCCase 21-3379 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2021-03-17
  Following the examination,VA sought an additional medical opinion,explaining that the prior examiner also noted a diagnosis of benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH),a condition that i...
• CAVCCase 24-4734 — Vacated / Remanded 2022-05-09
  August 2018 Board Denial In August 2018,the Board denied service connection for sleep apnea and a headache disorder....
• CAVCCase 19-5987 — Affirmed 2019-05-13
  The appellant ,through counsel appeals a May 13, 2019,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision that found that new and material evidence had not been submitted to reopen previousl...
• 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 23-1100 — Vacated / Remanded 2024-08-29
  at 703-04 (determining that a May 2021 VA medical opinion did not comply with the prior remand in part because the examiner did not address the appellant's weight changes);R....
• CAVCCase 17-0995 — Vacated / Remanded 2017-02-08
  After finding that VA had satisfied its duty to assist by obtaining various post-service medical records and providing adequate examinations relevant to each disability,R....
• CAVCCase 22-7345 — Vacated / Remanded 2022-11-03
  The examiner opined that the veteran's sleep apnea was not related to any type of [G]ulf [W]ar exposure event and that the condition was more likely caused by obesity....
• CAVCCase 07-0764 — Remanded / Affirmed / Vacated 2007-02-01
  Initially,the Court notes that it lacks jurisdiction over the claims for a skin disorder,bilateral hearing loss,increased ratings for an undiagnosed illness manifested by joint pai...
• 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 15-0594 — Reversed / Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2014-12-09
  He appeals,through counsel,a December 9,2014, Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision that denied entitlement to service connection for right hand arthritis and determined that n...
• CAVCCase 19-2640 — Reversed / Affirmed / Vacated 2021-04-16
  at 79,and he contended that when assigning the effective date VA had failed to consider and correctly apply 38 C....
• CAVCCase 22-1013 — Unknown 2021-12-20
  The examiner therefore opined that the veteran's bilateral hand pain was less likely than not related to his in- service complaints....
• CAVCCase 22-7103 — Unknown 2022-09-20
  The VA treatment provider who evaluated him submitted nexus letters dated in March 2016....
• CAVCCase 11-2903 — Affirmed 2011-09-02
  However,the Board found that the Veteran's account of sustaining a back injury while diving into an artillery pit to be credible....
• CAVCCase 22-6636 — Vacated / Remanded 2025-02-21
  at 920,and opined that the appellant's hypertension was not related to his sinusitis....
• CAVCCase 16-1052 — Remanded / Affirmed / Vacated 2016-02-10
  4 The Board noted that,at her separation examination,the appellant....
• CAVCCase 11-3455 — Vacated 2004-03-30
  The Board found that an examination with respect to the issue of sleep apnea is not necessary, because there is no competent and credible evidence that the Veteran had sleep apnea ...
• CAVCCase 19-6325 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2019-05-17
  The appellant argues that (1)VA failed to evaluate his conditions on an extraschedular basis;(2)VA failed to consider his headaches condition in relation to his 1999 application fo...
• CAVCCase 23-4293 — Remanded / Vacated 2024-08-09
  In April 2023,the appellant requested another 60-day extension of time,until July 4, 2023,to submit evidence and argument,but the Board denied the request later that month,finding ...
• CAVCCase 14-1940 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2014-04-16
  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...
• CAVCCase 20-7943 — Vacated / Remanded 2020-07-24
  Many of these conditions couldbe service connected on a presumptive,direct,or secondary basis upon demonstration that the veteran served in Vietnam � but the Board failed to adequa...
• CAVCCase 21-5985 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2021-06-11
  First,the Board determined that the December 2011 rating decision that denied entitlement to benefits for bilateral flat feet was final because the appellant had not appealed it....
• CAVCCase 20-4067 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2020-04-22
  In October 2006,the Board denied entitlement to higher disability ratings for the appellant's right shoulder disabilities....
• CAVCCase 19-2158 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2019-01-10
  To the extent that the Board denied entitlement to an effective date earlier than February 4,2007,for the 50%rating for PTSD,the appellant raises no arguments challenging that deci...
• CAVCCase 23-6142 — Remanded 2025-03-21
  For the reasons that follow,the Court will vacate the part of the Board's decision that denied an initial disability rating higher than 30%for headaches and failed to consider a to...
• CAVCCase 23-1474 — Vacated / Remanded 2024-06-18
  Accordingly,the Board determined that a new medical examination was necessary to clarify any chronic lymphatic disorder present during the appellate time period and its relationshi...
• CAVCCase 11-0200 — Affirmed / Remanded 2010-10-07
  First,she asserts that the Board erred in failing to award her a disability rating in excess of 10%for her hemorrhoid and lumbar spine claims....
• CAVCCase 19-5367 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2019-04-16
  1 For the reasons that follow, the Court will set aside 1 In the same decision,the Board denied service connection for sleep apnea and a toenail fungus; denied entitlement to an in...
• CAVCCase 23-5580 — Unknown 2024-11-19
  The Board noted that in an April 2016 opinion,the veteran's treating VA provider stated that a medical article linked PTSD and TBI to OSA and opined that it is more likely than not...
• CAVCCase 24-3612 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2025-05-30
  In the April 16,2024,decision on appeal,the Board denied the veteran's claims....
• CAVCCase 14-2952 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2014-06-30
  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...
• CAVCCase 10-2421 — Affirmed 2010-06-15
  The appellant had not submitted new and material evidence with regard to his claim for benefits for tinnitus and therefore declining to reopen that claim....
• 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 23-1785 — Remanded 2024-05-31
  The parties specified that the veteran reported to the June 2011 examiner that he wakes up gasping for air and that his spouse has witnessed him stop breathing in his sleep since 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 24-3854 — Unknown 2025-09-23
  February 2024 Board Decision In the February 2024 decision on appeal, the Board denied service connection for a right ankle condition....
• CAVCCase 17-0743 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2017-01-17
  SCHOELEN, Judge :the appellant , through counsel,appeals a January 17,2017, Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied entitlement to service connection fo...
• CAVCCase 21-3782 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2021-04-14
  Service Connection for Sinusitis In the decision on appeal, the Board denied service connection for sinusitis because the preponderance of the evidence was against finding that the...
• 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 20-2915 — Affirmed 2020-01-16
  The RO found no diagnosed respiratory condition,no 2 undiagnosed illness or medically unexplained chronic multisymptom illness,no nexus between the appellant's OSA and military ser...
• CAVCCase 13-2352 — Affirmed 2011-03-03
  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...
• CAVCCase 20-4401 — Reversed / Remanded / Vacated 2020-05-21
  7 The Secretary concedes that the Board failed to adequately support its decision because it did not reconcile conflicting evidence about whether appellant suffered additional disa...
• 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 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 14-0225 — Affirmed / Remanded / Vacated 2013-09-30
  The appellant ,through counsel,appeals a September 30,2013,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied his claims for disability compensation for a disabili...
• CAVCCase 18-0901 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2017-11-15
  In the November 2017 decision on appeal, the Board denied the claims on appeal....