- VA Inspector General Finds VA Disability Claim Backlog Larger than Officials Reported
- VA Proposes Change To Aid Veterans Exposed To Agent Orange
- VA Announces Test Of Paperless Claims Processing System
- VA Publishes Final Regulation To Aid Veterans Exposed to Agent Orange
- Zachary Stolz Of Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick Participating In Panel At Harvard Law School
- Harvard Law School Partners With Chisholm, Chisholm & Kilpatrick To Launch Veterans Legal Clinic
- Providence Firm Helps Launch Harvard Legal Clinic for Veterans
- From Law Week: Report At Time Of Sexual Assault Not Needed For Vet To Get PTSD Benefits
- CCK Wins Precedential Case That Will Help Veteran Sexual Assault Survivors
- CCK’s Zach Stolz Featured In Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly
- CCK Settles Specially Adapted Housing Case For Army Veteran
- CCK Settles Case For Air Force Veteran
- CCK settles case for Air Force veteran
- CCK Wins Precedential Decision in Nohr v. McDonald
- DAV CCK Pro Bono Veterans Court Program Featured In DAV Magazine
- CCK’s Kerry Baker Featured on Al Jazeera America
- CCK Helps Have Debt Waived for Army Veteran
- VA Services Available to Female Veterans
- VA To Establish Presumptive Service Connection For Camp Lejeune Veterans (1953-1987)
- CCK Wins Decision At Cavc Clarifying Board’s Duties In Adjudicating Veterans’ Entitlement To TDIU
- Court Finds Board Erred When It Favored Negative VA Exams Over Positive Private Exams
- CCK Appeals Decision That Denied Veteran Entitlement To Special Monthly Compensation
- CCK’s Zach Stolz And Dav Force Rollback Of Thailand Rule Change
- The Board Erred In Finding 1983 Bva Decision Subsumed A 1953 Rating Decision
- VA Almost Never Awards Extra-schedular Grants
- How To Increase The Chances Of Winning Your VA Disability Case
- CCK’s Zach Stolz Presents NOVA Session On Other Injunctive Relief
- CCK’s Robert Chisholm To Present At NOSSCR Conference
- CCK Uncovers Memo Used By VA To Wrongly Deny Claims Of Thailand Veterans
- VA Must Assist Veteran With Claim Based On Agent Orange Exposure In Thailand
- CCK Court win will help many veterans obtain more compensation
- How To Begin Filing Your Disability Claim With The VA
- The Most Common Illnesses Associated With Camp Lejeune Water Contamination
- Why ERISA Was Enacted And How It Should Benefit You Today
- Understanding Which Benefit Plans Are Subject To ERISA
- Understanding The Basics Of Your Short-term Disability And Long-Term Disability Coverage
- Why Should I Have To Work So Hard To Prove My Disability Is Related To Military Service?
- Why You Should Have An Agent Orange Registry Health Exam
- The Effects of Herbicides: Ongoing Studies Research the Effects Of Agent Orange
- Board erred in denying PGW Vet separate disability ratings
- The Board erred when it denied the Veteran an increased rating for carpal tunnel syndrome and headaches.
- Institute of Medicine studies VA’s Burn Pit Registry
- What Can I Do to Make the Veterans Disability Process Proceed More Smoothly in My Case?
- Board of Veterans’ Appeals (BVA): less productive this year than in past years?
- What Evidence Will the VA Require for My Disability Compensation Claim?
- Mood Disorders After Military Service: You May Qualify for Disability
- Ringing in the Ears? You May Qualify for Veterans Disability
- In denying service connection for a respiratory disorder, Board erred when it relied on an inadequate medical opinion
- Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms and How They Can Impact Your Ability to Work
- Cancer Symptoms and How They Can Impact Your Ability to Work
- Lyme Disease Symptoms and How They Can Impact Your Ability to Work
- Chronic Back Pain Symptoms and How They Can Impact Your Ability to Work
- Fibromyalgia Symptoms and How They Can Impact Your Ability to Work
- VA Disability Claims based on OIF & OEF Service: burn pit and other hazardous exposures
- The Board erred when it denied the Veteran Unemployability benefits
- Agent Orange Exposure in Vietnam
- Board’s denial of higher rating for PTSD failed to consider all evidence of record
- Caregiver Program: Veterans risk loss of care due to inability to appeal VHA decisions
- Operation Ranch Hand and Why It Is Still a Controversial Subject
- Herbicide exposure in Thailand: is service-connection possible?
- VA Medical Center in Washington D.C. under investigation
- VA Disability Compensation: an overview of the claims and appeals process
- Board failed to ensure adequate medical examination in Veteran’s claim for service connection for fatigue disability
- The VA Denied My Claim for an Increased Rating—What Now?
- VA Disability Ratings for Cancer and its Residuals
- Dependents’ Benefits for Effects of Agent Orange
- C&P exams: Compensation and Pension examinations and the role they play in your VA disability case
- Discharge Upgrades for Veterans with Mental Health Conditions
- Filing a “Fully Developed Claim” for Veterans Disability
- After Service: Seeking Help for Mental Health Issues
- Caregivers Update: VA suspends revocations of benefits for the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (PCAFC)
- Military discharge status and what it means for your entitlement to VA benefits
- Was your TBI claim denied between 2007 and 2015? Don’t miss your chance to get reevaluated
- How to reopen a VA claim with new and material evidence
- Federal hiring freeze update: VA announces lifting of hiring restrictions
- Storage Areas for Agent Orange During and After the Vietnam War
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) claims incorrectly processed by Boston VA Regional Office, alleges the Boston Herald
- CCK Team members present at NOVA Spring Conference
- CCK successfully argues for a precedential decision about protected work environment
- What is Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and Why Are So Many Veterans Affected?
- Beyond Vietnam: Other Military Areas Where Agent Orange was Used
- Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims has authority to certify class action, Federal Circuit rules
- Dependency and Indemnity Compensation: What Is It, and Do I Qualify?
- What does your VA disability rating mean?
- Decades of Hidden Hazards: The History of Camp Lejeune’s Water Contamination
- Board Fails to Provide Adequate Evidence for Denial of Disability Service Connection
- FAQ Fridays: Costs
- How to Check the Status of your VA Compensation Claim
- Examiner Must Address Theory of Service Connection
- Should I File My VA Compensation Claim Online?
- Court Orders Reinstatement of Veteran’s Rating after Board Decision
- Board erred in denial of increased rating for PTSD and in finding that TDIU was not raised by record
- CCK Secures Settlement for Veteran Exposed to Agent Orange in Puerto Rico
- CCK Successfully Appeals Rating for Service Connected PTSD
- New and Material Evidence: How To Use It To Your Advantage
- CCK argues Board used wrong standard in denying adapted housing benefits
- Board Does Not Fulfill its Duty to Assist in Herbicide Exposure Claim
- Special Monthly Compensation Explained
- FAQ Fridays: Documents
- How Long VA Appeals Process Can Take – Average Appeal Times for Disability Claims
- Board Must Consider Combined Effects of Disabilities on Employability
- CCK Successfully Appeals Board Decision to Deny Reopening Veteran’s Claim for Service Connection for Melanoma
- CCK Successfully Appeals Board Decision to Deny Increased Rating that Uses Inadequate Examination Report
- Troops Discharged for Misconduct Suffered From PTSD or TBI, Report Finds
- CCK Law Secures Earlier Effective Date for Veteran
- What is a Secondary Service-Connected Disability?
- Flexible part-time work may not be substantially gainful employment
- FAQ Friday: The Appeals Process & The CAVC
- Board Fails to Provide Adequate Examination and Discussion of Effects of Veteran’s Bilateral Hearing Loss
- Gastrointestinal Diseases and Disability Compensation
- VA intends to treat Agent Orange Thailand claims differently
- Cardiovascular Disorders and Long-term Disability Benefits
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and How it Impacts Your Ability to Work
- Skin Disorders and Long-term Disability Benefits
- Nehmer Claims: What You Need to Know
- Genitourinary Disorders and How They Impact Your Ability to Work
- CCK Appeals Board Denial for Service Connection for Hypertension Secondary to PTSD
- 4 Ways the Proposed VA Budget Would Affect Disabled Veterans
- CCK Argues Board Must Consider Combined Effect of Veteran’s Service-Connected Disabilities
- Can I Combine Multiple Disabilities Into One VA Claim?
- House passes overhaul of VA appeals process
- CCK Successfully Argues that Board Relies on Inadequate VA Examination to Deny Higher Ratings for Left Knee and Low Back Disability
- Board Did Not Consider Favorable Evidence, Relied on Inadequate Exam in PSTD and TDIU Denial
- VA Defends Budget Cuts to Benefits for Elderly Veterans
- Should I Appeal a Denied Claim or File a New VA Claim?
- Board Commits Error Denying Extraschedular Consideration for Peripheral Neuropathy
- Court finds Board failed to consider Anxiety Disorder symptoms
- 10 Most Common Disabilities for Veterans
- Board Fails to Address Lay Evidence Regarding Severity of Condition in Decision to Deny Veteran Increased Rating for Lumbar Spine Disability
- Secretary Shulkin’s “State of the VA” & Disabled Veterans
- What Evidence Do You Need to Support Your Claim for VA Benefits?
- Denial of low back disability relied on insufficient exam
- Trump Nominates 3 Judges for Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
- Deadline for Gulf War Veterans With Presumptive Conditions is Extended to 2021
- Error in denial of service connection for hypertension
- The Difference Between a VA Benefits Claim and an Appeal
- 5 Tips For Filing Your Notice of Disagreement
- The Veterans Choice Program & The Future of Community Care
- Knee Problems and Your VA Disability Claim
- IU Benefits Update: VA Secretary Willing to Find Alternative to Cuts
- Sciatica and Your VA Disability Claim
- FAQ Friday: When the Board remands your appeal, what happens?
- Why the Board of Veterans’ Appeals Remands a Case
- How VA Rates Arthritis
- Bell’s Palsy and Long-Term Disability Benefits
- VA official ignores Agent Orange facts, blames media “hype” for Thailand “problem”
- Epilepsy and Long-Term Disability Benefits
- Hypertension and Long-Term Disability Benefits
- Phlebitis and Long-Term Disability Benefits
- Tendonitis and Long-Term Disability Benefits
- Supreme Court Justices Sotomayor & Gorsuch find common ground
- Thoracic Outlet Compression and Long-Term Disability Benefits
- Medicaid cuts in Senate health care bill worry veterans
- FAQ Friday: VA Pension vs. VA Compensation
- Stroke and Your Claim for Disability Benefits
- How VA Rates Joint Problems
- How Does VA Rate Bronchitis for Disability Compensation Purposes?
- Rating Reductions: What VA Can and Cannot Do
- Digital Neuritis and Long-Term Disability Benefits
- Mechanical Back Syndrome and How It Impacts Your Ability to Work
- FAQ Friday: Permanent and Total (P&T) Disability
- Degenerative Disc Disease and How It Impacts Your Ability to Work
- Herniated Disc and How It Impacts Your Ability to Work
- Meniere’s Disease and How It Impacts Your Ability to Work
- Diabetes denial contained legal error by the Board
- Protected Work Environment for TDIU: What does it actually mean?
- Guillain-Barre Syndrome and How It Impacts Your Ability to Work
- De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis and How It Impacts Your Ability to Work
- Military Sexual Trauma (MST): How to get service connection
- FAQ Friday: Separation Pay & VA Disability Compensation
- VA denies over 80% of Gulf War Illness claims, report finds
- GOP may tie debt limit increase to Veterans’ Choice funding
- Denial of increased rating for PTSD ignored evidence of record
- Diabetes Denial missed key VA regulation
- Veterans to shop tax-free at online military exchanges
- CCK’s Kerry Baker advocates for burn pit veterans at Congressional briefing
- Board relied on insufficient exam in heart condition denial
- Ankle disability denial failed to consider difficulty with walking & standing
- VA Family Caregivers Program Resumes Revocations
- VA to decide on new Agent Orange presumptive diseases
- CCK Makes Donation to American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial
- TDIU Denial ignored important evidence
- Meet the 3 Recently Confirmed CAVC Judges
- What Happens When a VA Appeal is Remanded?
- BREAKING: VA appeals reform legislation awaits President’s signature
- Bursitis and Your Claim for VA Benefits
- Bilateral knee condition denial ignored possible connection to service
- Low back disability denial relied on inadequate exam
- Agent Orange Registry Health Exam: What To Expect
- What Were Burn Pits Used for During Wartime?
- FAQ Friday: Who is eligible for VA disability compensation?
- Headaches denial didn’t fully evaluate evidence
- Diabetic neuropathy denial used incorrect ratings
- Denial of increased rating for psychiatric disability contained error
- Inaccurate VA examinations used to deny increased rating for PTSD
- INFOGRAPHIC: The “Forever” G.I. Bill Explained
- Board Erred in Improperly Rejecting Veteran’s Lay Statements
- Board erred in denial of increased rating for headaches
- Board erred in denial of total disability rating [TDIU]
- Prostatitis denial contained legal error by the Board
- Traumatic Brain Injury residuals denial lacked adequate reasons or bases
- Board errs in denial of service connection for cause of death
- TDIU denial relied on insufficient and unexplained medical opinions
- FAQ Friday: When is my effective date?
- CCK successfully appeals denial of service connection based on herbicide exposure in Thailand
- Rep. Mike Coffman sends Congressional inquiry to VA Secretary about burn pits
- Court Finds Board Deviated from Manual Guidance in Denial related to Herbicide Exposure in Thailand
- Denial of extraschedular referral for bilateral hearing loss disability rested on provision of inadequate reasons or bases
- Denial of TDIU Failed to Consider Foot Scars
- “Other related factors” must be considered in extraschedular analysis
- Hyperkeratosis increased rating denial contained legal error
- Board denied TDIU, committed legal error
- Thrombosis denial contained legal error by the BVA
- Board erred in left leg disability denial while simultaneously remanding TDIU
- Hearing loss denial contained legal error by Board
- VA grants CCK’s Rulemaking Petition for Thailand claims
- Increased rating for PTSD denial contained legal error
- Denial of unemployability benefits contained legal error, Court finds
- FAQ Friday – What to do when you receive a VCAA Notice
- Board improperly denied unemployability benefits, CAVC finds
- Increased rating for PTSD denial premised on incorrect rating criteria
- The Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) Explained
- Denial of service connection for hearing loss disability failed to consider delayed onset
- Peripheral neuropathy denial did not provide adequate explanation
- Board failed to consider Veteran’s vertigo, dizziness in denial of extraschedular consideration
- VA Healthcare Eligibility & Copays
- Military Sexual Trauma (MST) Claims
- FAQ Friday: SSDI and TDIU
- Board was wrong to conclude Unit Morning Reports would not be helpful in verifying Veteran’s stressor
- Court finds Board erred in denying Veteran’s CUE claim
- Court holds the Board must consider applicable VA Fast Letter
- VA Disability Ratings and How They Work
- Evidence of DNA damage found in veterans with Gulf War Illness
- Meet Our Team: Attorney Dan Marusak
- Navy Deck Logs: How to use them to find evidence for your claim
- A new Veterans Home for Rhode Island
- RAMP: Should you participate in VA’s new Rapid Appeals Modernization Program?
- Burn Pit Claims
- Board erred when it denied a higher rating for depression
- Shulkin calls for systematic review of VA benefits system
- Board errs in denial that relied on VA examinations
- FAQ Friday: VA Disability Rating Reductions
- Board erred when it relied on Veteran’s employment to deny extraschedular rating for service-connected ankle disability
- Denial of TDIU rested on inadequate reasons or bases and ignored favorable evidence of PTSD symptoms
- Denial of increased rating for right knee disability contained legal error
- Board misinterpreted and misapplied the law in psychiatric disorder denial
- Meet Our Team: Kerry Baker
- 5 reasons the VA doctors’ guide to burn pits is totally inadequate
- Special Monthly Compensation Series: SMC(k)
- Bilateral Disabilities and VA Compensation
- TDIU: What you need to know
- Special Monthly Compensation Series: SMC(s)
- VA Appeal Deadlines
- CUE “Claims”: How to challenge a final decision
- Special Monthly Compensation Series: SMC(l & l1/2)
- How to submit a FOIA Request
- Multiple Sclerosis: Veterans with MS and VA Disability Benefits
- Social Security Disability (SSDI) vs. VA Disability Compensation
- Everything you need to know about the new Rapid Appeals Modernization Program (RAMP)
- FAQ Friday: How does the VA rate Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)?
- Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Agent Orange
- CRDP and CRSC: Concurrent Receipt Explained
- Board Provided Inadequate Statement of Reasons or Bases for Denying Service Connection for Left Knee Disability
- BVA denial of Right Hand Disability based on inadequate VA exam
- CCK presents oral argument at CAVC for veteran’s severe knee disability
- Board erred when it found the Veteran could perform sedentary work
- PTSD symptoms not fully analyzed by Board, Court finds
- Service Connection Denial for Hip Bursitis & other conditions Used Insufficient Medical Opinions
- BVA Denies Service Connection for Asthma based on Inadequate Medical Examination
- Pes planus denial based on misapplication of the law, Court finds
- FAQ Friday: DIC Benefits
- Court reverses Board’s denial of earlier effective date for herpes progenitalis
- BVA provided inadequate reasons as to how Veteran’s conditions were contemplated by IBS rating
- CAVC reverses BVA’s denial of specially adapted housing benefit
- Published: Robert Chisholm’s article about hazardous military exposures affecting Vietnam-era, OIF and OEF veterans
- Board Erred When it Failed to Compare Veteran’s Asthma Symptoms to Rating Schedule
- Board erred when it ignored the Veteran’s competent lay statement
- BVA denies Veteran major depressive disorder based on inadequate medical rationale
- Board applies wrong standard for SMC based on loss of use
- BVA denial of increased rating for costochondritis and TDIU relied on inadequate reasons or bases
- BVA denial of an increased rating for rhinitis relied on inadequate reasons or bases
- BVA Denial of service connection for prostate cancer relied on insufficient efforts to verify herbicide exposure
- Compensation and Pension (C&P) Examinations: What to expect, and the role they play in your VA disability claim
- Denials of service connection for bilateral hip arthritis, bilateral knee arthritis relied on inadequate reasons or bases
- Board erred in denying a compensable rating for hemorrhoid condition
- How to Win Your VA Claim
- New VA treatment records could provide nexus opinion, reopen Veteran’s claim
- Board erred when it denied total disability based on individual unemployability
- BVA erroneously denies extraschedular consideration of bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus
- BVA overlooked impaired impulse control in denial of PTSD claim
- BVA errs in denying earlier effective date for TDIU, extraschedular referral for adjustment disorder
- Temporary and Total VA Disability
- Denial of TDIU for neck disability and other conditions relied on inadequate reasoning
- Board erred in relying on an inadequate medical opinion to deny service connection for sarcoidosis
- BVA ignores competent statements, errs in denying a higher rating for migraine headaches, bilateral ankle disability
- BVA used inadequate VA exam to deny higher rating for cervical spine disability
- BVA failed to comply with remand order, wrongly denied service connection for bilateral knee disabilities
- BVA relied on an inadequate VA exam to determine the Veteran capable of sedentary employment
- Ruling on Burn Pits Could Impact Veterans
- FAQ Friday: Aid and Attendance Benefits (A&A)
- BVA fails to consider TDIU despite being raised in an increased rating claim for Veteran’s lower back condition
- Denial of increased rating for bipolar disorder lacked adequate reasons or bases
- 10 Important VA Forms
- BVA erred in its denial of Veteran’s increased rating claim for headache condition
- How Does the VA Rate Migraine Headaches?
- BVA erroneously determines Veteran is capable of sedentary duties, denies TDIU
- When Do VA Ratings Become Permanent?
- How will VA’s 2019 budget impact disabled veterans?
- CCK Live: Revisiting the Rapid Appeals Modernization Program (RAMP)
- Board prematurely denied entitlement to extraschedular referral for the Veteran’s bilateral hearing disability
- Board relied on inadequate examinations in denying service-connection for thoracolumbar degenerative disc disease
- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse visits CCK
- Fibromyalgia and VA Disability Compensation
- Board denies a higher rating for upper extremity condition, fails to provide reasons for choice of diagnostic code
- BVA errs in denial of service connection for a bilateral knee condition
- How Does the VA Rate Irritable Bowel Syndrome?
- Board erroneously focused on Veteran’s non-service-connected disabilities in TDIU denial
- BVA errs in denial of higher rating for PTSD, earlier effective date for TDIU
- CCK Live: Legislative Proposals in 2019 VA Budget
- Can I Still Work If I Receive VA Disability?
- Board erred in denial of service connection for Veteran’s peripheral vascular disease
- Board erred when it denied extraschedular referral for Veteran’s shoulder condition
- VA Cost-Of-Living Adjustment (COLA) and 2018 Compensation Rates
- Denial of individual unemployability relied on inadequate reasons or bases
- BVA wrongly denies service connection for pseudogout due to reliance on inadequate VA medical exam
- Permanent and Total Disability Ratings
- Board wrongly denies Veteran service connection for hip condition
- BVA wrongly denies Veteran service connection for leg paralysis pursuant to 38 U.S.C. § 1151
- FAQ Friday: Nehmer Claims
- What Is a GAF Score and How Does it Affect My VA Disability?
- BVA relied on insufficient exam, wrongly denies claim for Diabetes and Hypertension
- BVA errs in denial, Court finds VA examiner failed to opine on aggravation
- What Is the Veterans Benefits Administration?
- Board wrongly denied referral for extraschedular TDIU, higher rating for sensorineural hearing loss
- BVA wrongly denied service connection for high blood pressure, definitive proof not required in VA benefits cases
- What Is Constrictive Bronchiolitis?
- CCK Appealed Board Denial of Low Back Claim Based on Inadequate Consideration of Functional Loss
- VA Vocational Rehabilitation
- How Does the VA Rate Bladder Cancer?
- BVA relied on unsubstantiated medical opinion to wrongly deny increased rating for epiphysitis of the lumbar spine
- BVA errs in denying service connection for pancreatic cancer as due to herbicide exposure
- CCK’s Scott Kilpatrick and Mason Waring Participate in Rhode Island Litigation Academy
- Prostate Cancer and VA Disability Compensation
- How Does VA Rate Sleep Apnea?
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- Board erred when it denied service connection for sleep apnea and increased rating for gastroparesis
- Inspector General Report Shows Widespread Problems at DC VAMC
- Type 2 Diabetes and VA Disability Compensation
- Turmoil at VA Surrounds Secretary Shulkin
- What Are Staged Ratings?
- Clear and Unmistakable Errors (CUEs)
- Board Erred in Denying Service Connection for Diabetes as Due to Agent Orange Exposure
- How Does VA Disability Back Pay Work?
- The Board erred when it denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability
- Burn Pit-Related Medical Conditions
- TDIU Claims: The Complete Picture
- Denial of increased rating for Veteran’s foot disability was premature
- Denial of service connection for cause of death resulted from failure to consider exposure to herbicides
- What Should I Do If My Military Service Records Were Destroyed?
- Denial of service connection resulted from reliance on inadequate medical opinion
- What are Military Burn Pits?
- Board failed to provide adequate reasons and bases for extraschedular denial
- What is the Choice Act?
- Denial of individual unemployability relied on Board’s conjecture instead of evidence
- What Is a Board Remand?
- Board erred in denial for a higher rating for PTSD, remanded entitlement to TDIU
- Board of Veterans’ Appeals Decisions: Grants, Remands, and Denials
- Board Lane will open to RAMP participants in October
- CCK Partners, Staff Present at 2018 Veteran Advocate Conference
- Denial of sinusitis disability lacked adequate reasons or bases
- Is TDIU Permanent?
- Anna Durham wins the Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick Child of a Disabled Veteran Scholarship
- Board erred in relying on inadequate medical opinion for shoulder disability
- Shulkin Testifies Before Senate Committee on VA 2019 Budget
- VA’s Rapid Appeals Modernization Program (RAMP) Will Open to All Veterans on April 1
- Board erred in denying examination for left knee disability
- Board denial of TDIU relied on inadequate reasons or bases
- President Fires VA Secretary Shulkin, Nominates Ronny Jackson to Lead VA
- What is the Dependents Educational Assistance (DEA) Program?
- Benefits for Family Members of Veterans Stationed at Camp Lejeune
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- The VA Appeals Backlog is Still Growing: Here’s Why
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Claims at the VA
- Denial of increased ratings rested on inadequate VA examination, improper treatment of lay evidence
- CCK Sponsors Vietnam Memorial Moving Wall
- CCK Live: Effective Dates
- Exposure to Agent Blue at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
- Did C-123 Aircraft Spray Agent Orange During the Vietnam War?
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and VA Disability Compensation
- Board denial of service connection for GERD, right knee failed to address VA examination
- Robert Chisholm Interviews Military Exposures Expert Dr. Victoria Cassano
- Federal Circuit Court Rules Veterans Can Get Disability Benefits for Pain
- Board failed to determine if Veteran entitled to combat presumption for tinnitus, hearing loss
- Denial of separate ratings for knee disabilities, instability was improper
- What Is VA Survivors Pension?
- Board failed to provide Veteran with adequate hearing
- Military Toxic Exposure: Burn Pits
- What Is a VA Claims File?
- What is a Prisoner of War (POW)?
- Court reverses Board’s finding that the Veteran did not perfect his appeal
- What VA Benefits Are Available to Former Prisoners of War (POWs)?
- CCK Argues Against Board Denial for Increased Rating for PTSD
- VA Dependents: Who Qualifies, How to Add Them, and Benefits Available
- What Are the Requirements for TDIU?
- Was I Exposed to Agent Orange While Working on C-123 Aircraft?
- Hearings with the Board of Veterans’ Appeals
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- What Is the VA’s Burn Pit Registry?
- What Happens After a CAVC Remand?
- Can I Receive VA Disability Benefits for Pain? A Second Look at Saunders v. Wilkie
- What Is Deployment-Related Lung Disease?
- Finality of VA Decisions
- Board Failed To Adjudicate Entitlement To Extraschedular Referral For Headaches
- Board Failed to Consider Exceptional Symptoms for Hearing Loss and Tinnitus
- What Happens When VA Proposes to Reduce My Disability Rating?
- CCK LIVE: Orthopedic Ratings and VA Disability
- Denial of initial disability rating in excess of 70 percent for PTSD was erroneous
- Court rules veteran may be entitled to presumptive services connection due to herbicide exposure
- How Are Gulf War Illness and Burn Pit Claims Different?
- Specially Adapted Housing and Automobile Special Adaptive Equipment
- What Is a VA Overpayment?
- Board Failed to Fully Account for Veteran’s Work History in TDIU Denial
- Meet Our Team: Brad Hennings
- Pyramiding: How to avoid stacking your VA ratings
- The VA’s Duty to Assist
- Congress to Vote on Blue Water Veterans, Agent Orange Benefits
- CCK LIVE: Special Monthly Compensation (SMC)
- Top Reasons VA Denies Claims
- VA Disability Ratings for Asthma
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- The Future of Blue Water Navy Veterans: Oral Argument in Procopio v. Wilkie
- Providing a “Nexus” For Your VA Disability Claim
- Understanding VA Claims for “Undiagnosed Illnesses”
- CCK LIVE: VA Mail Fail – Why VA Fails to Send Decisions to Veterans and Advocates
- Understanding Medically Unexplained Chronic Multisymptom Illnesses (MUCMI)
- VA Disability Ratings for COPD
- CCK LIVE: Blue Water Navy Veterans
- Blue Water Navy Update: Federal Circuit Order in Procopio v. Wilkie
- Meet Our Team: CCK Partner Mason Waring
- Rapid Appeals Modernization Program (RAMP) UPDATE: More Veterans Opting In
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- CCK LIVE: Effective Communication and Long-Term Disability Claims
- Published: Robert Chisholm’s Article on VA’s Rapid Appeals Modernization Program (RAMP)
- Board of Veterans’ Appeals Releases New Template for Decisions
- VA Disability Benefits for GERD
- CCK succeeds at Court representing Veteran’s widow appealing for service connection for Cause of Death
- Schedular vs. Extraschedular VA Disability Rating
- Will My Car Accident Case Go to Court?
- Healthcare and Caregiver Benefits for Veterans to be expanded under VA MISSION ACT
- Board Errs In Denying Service Connection for Hiatal Hernia Secondary to Duodenal Ulcer Disability
- Do I Need a Lawyer If I Got Catastrophic Injuries In a Car Accident?
- CCK LIVE: All About VA Claim Evidence
- Rhode Island Speeding Law Violations
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- RAMP Decisions: What They Include and What To Expect
- Seat Belt Laws and Personal Injury Claims in Rhode Island
- How Is Car Accident Fault Determined in Rhode Island?
- Providence’s Mayor Jorge Elorza Visits CCK
- Lawmakers and Families Meet At First “Potential Effects of Burn Pit Exposure Among Veterans” Congressional Hearing
- Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick LTD Named One of Rhode Island’s Best Places to Work 2018 By Providence Business News
- CCK Partner Robert Chisholm Participates as Judge in Moot Court Competition
- Car Accidents and Rhode Island Cell Phone Laws
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- What Are the Rhode Island Car Seat Laws?
- What to do if You Are in a Car Accident in Rhode Island
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- CCK LIVE: Recent Federal Circuit Rulings and Their Impact on Veterans
- Board Commits Legal Error in Denying Service Connection for Psychiatric Condition
- National Academy of Sciences Finds Gaps in Army’s Study of Long-Term Health Effects on Test Subjects
- After the Car Accident: What to do
- Noncompensable VA Ratings – What They Are
- Obesity and VA Disability Compensation
- What A VA Incompetency Proposal Means – And How to Fight It
- Analogous Ratings – What They Are
- How to Expedite VA Disability Claims
- IRS Owes Veterans Refunds for Overpayments from Disability Severance Pay
- Plantar Fasciitis and VA Compensation
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- Women Veterans Healthcare at VA
- VA Dental Benefits for Veterans
- Scars and VA Disability Compensation
- VA Benefits for Agent Orange – What Veterans Can Receive When It Comes to Exposure
- VA OIG: VA Gave Thousands of Unnecessary Exams to Disabled Veterans
- CCK LIVE: Agent Orange in Thailand
- VA Released Report on National Suicide Data
- CCK’s Kerry Baker Featured on PBS News Hour
- VA Benefits for Combat Veterans
- CCK’s Brad Hennings Interviews Chairman of the Board of Veterans’ Appeals
- CCK LIVE: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Claims
- 7 Key Takeaways from the House Committee on Veterans Affairs Hearing on Current Status of Appeals Reform Implementation
- VA Disability for Thyroid Conditions
- CCK Recognized at DAV Convention for Donation to American Veterans Disabled For Life Memorial
- VA Benefits for National Guard and Reserve Members
- The Basics of eBenefits
- VA Home Loans and How to Qualify
- When and If VA Can Stop a Veteran’s Benefits
- Radiculopathy and VA Disability Benefits
- Peripheral Neuropathy and VA Disability Benefits
- CCK LIVE: The “Non-Adversarial” Nature of the VA Claims Process
- Veterans Affairs Facilities and Their Functions
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- Common Secondary Service-Connected Conditions among Veterans
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- CCK Successfully Substituted Sister-in-Law into Case Before Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
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- 1151 Claims – What They Are and How to File
- Radiation Exposure and VA Disability Compensation
- Substance Use Disorder Among Veterans
- CCK LIVE: Gulf War Illness and VA Disability
- What is a “Veteran” for VA Benefit Purposes?
- Blue Water Navy Update: Federal Circuit to Go En Banc, Orders New Briefs and Oral Argument in Procopio
- The Southwest Asia Theater of Operations and Benefits for These Veterans
- CCK LIVE: The History of Agent Orange
- What Veterans Should Know about VA’s Proposed Appeals Reform Regulations
- VA Mishandled Military Sexual Trauma (MST) Claims, VA OIG Reports
- Superfund Sites and How They Impact Veterans
- Persian Gulf War Veterans and Benefits Available
- Substitution and VA Benefits: How to Substitute and Who Qualifies
- VA’s Standard of Proof: “At Least as Likely as Not”
- VA’s Benefit of the Doubt Doctrine
- Presumption and VA Claims – What They Are
- VA Schedule for Rating Disabilities
- How to Use VA’s Combined Ratings Table for VA Disability
- CCK Wins for Veteran after VA Files for Reconsideration
- Military Retirement – What It Means for Veterans
- Board Erred in Denying Gulf War Vet Service Connection for Insomnia Disorder Based on Pyramiding
- Intervertebral Disc Syndrome (IVDS) and VA Disability
- Tips for Completing Your Long-Term Disability Claim and Update Forms
- Board Failed to Explain Treatment of Conflicting Evidence in PTSD Denial
- VA Disability – What Qualifies as a Disability for VA Benefits
- CCK Successfully Argues that Board Erred in Denial of Service Connection for Squamous Cell Carcinoma
- The Presumption of Soundness
- CCK LIVE: Claims at the Board of Veterans’ Appeals
- The Structure and Function of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
- CCK LIVE: Evidence for Your VA Individual Unemployability Claim
- VA Disability for Pes Planus (Flat Feet)
- Veterans of the Global War on Terror and Benefits Available
- Unites States Code (USC) vs. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
- Military Separation Pay vs. Severance Pay
- CCK Argues that Board Denied Sleep Apnea Based on Inadequate Exam
- Special Monthly Compensation Series: SMC (t)
- The “Forever” GI Bill Explained
- Decision Issued on Herbicide Exposure at Fort Drum
- Report Outlines Health Effects of Harmful Substances Used on Military Bases
- Board Erred in Determination of No New and Material Evidence for Inguinal Hernia Claim
- PARURESIS DENIAL CONTAINED LEGAL ERROR BY THE BOARD
- Long-Term Disability Policies: Definition of Disability
- 10 Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims Cases All Veterans Should Know: Part 1
- The Agent Orange Act of 1991
- TDIU Denial Contained Legal Error by the Board
- “Helping Veterans Exposed to Burn Pits Act” Signed Into Law
- 5 Veteran-Friendly States
- VA Clothing Allowance Benefit for Veterans
- VA Disability Pay Chart
- VA Reimbursement for Emergency Medical Care
- Flare-Ups: How They Impact Orthopedic Ratings
- 30% PTSD Rating
