BVA Decisions on TBI

34 real veterans-appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving TBI — 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 24-2807 — Vacated / Remanded 2025-09-09
  In December 2021,the Board determined that the October 2021 VA examination report was inadequate and that another examination ....
• CAVCCase 96-1214 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 1999-02-11
  In the May 28, 1996, BVA decision here on appeal, the Board denied service connection for wounds of the lower extremities, frostbite of the feet, a skin disorder of the feet, heari...
• CAVCCase 14-1330 — Vacated / Remanded 2012-03-01
  Regarding VA's duty to assist,the Board found the March 2012 audiological examination adequate to enable the Board to make an informed decision on the claims,noting that the examin...
• 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 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 14-0138 — Vacated / Remanded 2013-12-27
  In the December 27,2013,decision on appeal,the Board denied disability compensation for migraine headaches,a central nervous system disability manifested by dizziness,bilateral hea...
• CAVCCase 13-0540 — Vacated / Remanded 2015-02-09
  On appeal,the appellant contends that the Board failed to provide an adequate statement of reasons or bases for rejecting his testimony concerning the continuity of his symptoms af...
• CAVCCase 23-0038 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2022-05-09
  In response to a claim received on March 15,2018, 4 a VA regional office (RO) denied service connection for both diabetes and anxiety based on a lack of new and material evidence,a...
• CAVCCase 19-7428 — Remanded / Vacated 2019-08-05
  The examiner noted that the appellant's headaches are not related to his TBI,but he did develop some personality changes following his in-service head injury,which he believes have...
• 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 23-527 — Vacated / Remanded 2024-07-31
  A separate medical opinion completed by the same psychologist provided a negative nexus and stated that the [e]xaminer sees no evidence of [m]emory [l]oss....
• 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 17-3135 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded 2017-08-02
  The examiner also concluded that the appellant's in-service back muscle strain and muscle spasm had resolved without residuals,and that such conditions did not cause and were not r...
• 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 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 18-6734 — Affirmed 2018-11-01
  In the decision here on appeal the Board denied service connection for each of the claimed conditions....
• CAVCCase 23-7340 — Granted / Denied In Part 2025-04-10
  The appellant sustained to his head and neck 2 Case:23-7340 Page: 3 of 21 Filed:04/10/2025 in August 1965 were not service connected because he did not enter active service until F...
• CAVCCase 22-0960 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2021-11-24
  Later that month,VA simply found that no new and material evidence was submitted to reopen a previously denied head injury claim....
• CAVCCase 20-5236 — Unknown 2022-06-21
  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...
• CAVCCase 14-4007 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2014-10-10
  Among other things,the Board denied the appellant's claims for disability compensation for bilateral cervical radiculopathy,dry eye syndrome,and a left knee disorder (other than sh...
• 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 22-0363 — Affirmed 2011-01-22
  The parties filed a joint motion for remand wherein they agreed that (1)the issue of entitlement to TDIU was reasonably raised prior to 2008,(2)the Board erred by finding that TBI ...
• CAVCCase 07-3547 — Affirmed / Remanded / Vacated 2007-10-30
  The appellant appeals through counsel an October 30,2007,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board determined that a June 6,2000,Board decision had subsumed a Ju...
• 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 17-4239 — Reversed / Vacated / Remanded 2017-10-27
  The Board denied entitlement to an initial disability rating in excess of 10%for the period prior to August 16,2011,in a July 2013 decision....
• CAVCCase 20-0523 — Vacated / Remanded 2019-12-03
  APPELLANT'S ARGUMENTS On appeal,the appellant argues that the Board failed in its duty to assist because it did not obtain relevant Social Security Administration (SSA)records....
• 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 06-0019 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed 2005-12-01
  In the December 2005 decision here on appeal, the Board determined that there was no CUE in the 1992 RO decision that assigned a single evaluation for residuals of head and neck in...
• 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 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 23-6946 — Reversed / Vacated / Remanded 2025-09-24
  The RO found that the evidence did not show that the appellant had incurred a cervical spine disability during his in-service MVA and that any present disability was not related to...
• CAVCCase 23-1665 — Remanded 2024-11-06
  In February 2019,the Board denied the appellant's motion alleging CUE in the October 1997 administrative decision finding that the MVA was not incurred in the line of duty....
• CAVCCase 22-7337 — Remanded 2024-08-28
  In an April 2016 decision,the Board denied a rating higher than 10%, effective before January 1,2011,for right knee degenerative arthritis,status post arthroscopic surgeries and un...