Veterans Disability Info Blog

In Parts I and II of this series on how to refute VA exams or VA medical opinions, we discussed situations where the VA examiner relied on inaccurate facts or failed to provide adequate reasons for his conclusion. In today’s installment I am going to focus on the VA’s failure to follow...

In Part I of this series on how to refute VA exams or VA medical opinions, we discussed the importance of examining the factual assumptions upon which the VA examiner relied in reaching his conclusion against service connection. To reiterate, if the VA examiner assumed inaccurate facts, then his...

One of the biggest challenges a disabled veteran faces when seeking service connection is how to refute an unfavorable VA medical opinion. As a veterans disability attorney I have literally reviewed thousands of VA compensation and pension exam reports over the years. And it’s not an...

Since the VA scandal broke this past spring, there has been no shortage of outrage among the veterans community regarding the long wait times to see a doctor at the VA medical centers. By now, most of you are familiar with the news of the secret wait lists and the elaborate schemes devised to...