Service connection for sleep apnea [REMANDED] Citation Nr: 18160550


Citation Nr: 18160550 Decision Date: 12/27/18 Archive Date: 12/27/18 DOCKET NO. 17-03 873 DATE: December 27, 2018 REMANDED Service connection for sleep apnea is remanded. REASONS FOR REMAND The Veteran served on active duty from June 1982 to January 2010. This matter comes before the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (Board) on appeal from a May…

Traumatic brain injury (TBI); lower back strain; ventral hernia; tender scar; scar; tender scar, status post hernia repair [REMANDED] Citation Nr: 18160557


Citation Nr: 18160557 Decision Date: 12/27/18 Archive Date: 12/27/18 DOCKET NO. 16-56 007 DATE: 1. Entitlement to service connection for a traumatic brain injury (TBI), to include residuals other than headaches. 2. Entitlement to an increased disability rating for a lower back strain, currently rated as 10 percent disabling. 3. Entitlement to an increased disability…

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) to include on an extra-schedular basis [REMANDED] Citation Nr: 18160559


Citation Nr: 18160559 Decision Date: 12/27/18 Archive Date: 12/27/18 DOCKET NO. 16-46 344 DATE: December 27, 2018 REMANDED The claim of entitlement to an initial disability rating greater than 50 percent for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is remanded. The claim of entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to service-connected…

Rating decision that denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder; duodenal ulcer; (TDIU) [REMANDED] Citation Nr: 18160560


Citation Nr: 18160560 Decision Date: 12/27/18 Archive Date: 12/27/18 DOCKET NO. 04-04 156 DATE: December 27, 2018 REMANDED The motion to revise an August 29, 1972, rating decision that denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder is remanded. The application to reopen the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder is remanded.…

Right shoulder disability; hearing loss disability [DENIED]; right shoulder disability; hearing loss disability [REOPENED]; 10 percent for a right knee disability [REMANDED] Citation Nr: 18160561


Citation Nr: 18160561 Decision Date: 12/27/18 Archive Date: 12/27/18 DOCKET NO. 17-02 403 DATE: December 27, 2018 ORDER New and material evidence sufficient to reopen the claim of service connection for a right shoulder disability has been received, and to that extent only, the claim is granted. New and material evidence sufficient to reopen the…

Entitlement to service connection for pes planus as secondary to service-connected bilateral shin splints [REMANDED] Citation Nr: 18160562


Citation Nr: 18160562 Decision Date: 12/27/18 Archive Date: 12/27/18 DOCKET NO. 12-05 394 DATE: December 27, 2018 REMANDED Entitlement to service connection for pes planus as secondary to service-connected bilateral shin splints is remanded. REASONS FOR REMAND The Veteran served on active duty in the United States Army from January 2004 to April 2006. This…

Entitlement to an initial disability rating in excess of 50 percent for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) [REMANDED] Citation Nr: 18160564


Citation Nr: 18160564 Decision Date: 12/27/18 Archive Date: 12/27/18 DOCKET NO. 00-00 921 DATE: December 27, 2018 REMANDED Entitlement to an initial disability rating in excess of 50 percent for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is remanded. REASONS FOR REMAND The Veteran served on active duty in the U.S. Army from May 1968 to May 1970.…

Individual unemployability due to service-connected disability (TDIU) [GRANTED]; tinnitus; left ear hearing loss; scar, Cesarean section [DENIED]; sleep apnea [GRANTED] Citation Nr: 18160563


Citation Nr: 18160563 Decision Date: 12/27/18 Archive Date: 12/27/18 DOCKET NO. 16-60 397 DATE: December 27, 2018 ORDER Entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disability (TDIU) is granted. Entitlement to an initial evaluation in excess of 10 percent for tinnitus is denied. Entitlement to an initial compensable evaluation…

Entitlement to service connection for bilateral hearing loss; tinnitus [REMANDED] Citation Nr: 18160565


Citation Nr: 18160565 Decision Date: 12/27/18 Archive Date: 12/27/18 DOCKET NO. 17-02 129 DATE: December 27, 2018 REMANDED Entitlement to service connection for bilateral hearing loss is remanded. Entitlement to service connection for tinnitus is remanded. REASONS FOR REMAND The Veteran served on active duty from December 1964 to August 1966. This case is before…

Entitlement to service connection for a back disability; acquired psychiatric disorder, to include (PTSD) and major depressive disorder [REMANDED] Citation Nr: 18160567


Citation Nr: 18160567 Decision Date: 12/27/18 Archive Date: 12/27/18 DOCKET NO. 17-04 765 DATE: December 27, 2018 REMANDED The claim of entitlement to service connection for a back disability is remanded. The claim of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder, is remanded.…