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When New Jersey recently passed legislation to separate military affairs from veterans’ affairs, it marked more than a bureaucratic change. For veterans across the state, it represented a long-awaited opportunity to receive the dedicated support they deserve. The law, set to take effect in 120 days, creates a new cabinet-level agency exclusively […]

The president’s recent decision to deploy National Guard units to Washington in response to crime has reignited a longstanding debate: when does a guardsman’s service cross the threshold into veteran status, and what benefits should follow? For Eric Gang, founder of Gang & Associates and one of the nation’s leading veterans’ rights attorneys, […]

Eric Gang, founder of Gang & Associates LLC and a nationally recognized veterans’ attorney, has spent decades reviewing the medical records of former servicemembers, often spanning 40 to 50 years. With this unique vantage point, Gang has uncovered patterns that many healthcare providers simply don’t have the time or access to see. […]

Veterans today face a claims process that looks nothing like it did decades ago. What was once a straightforward path to benefits has transformed into a medically and legally intricate system. For many veterans, it is simply too complex to navigate alone. According to Eric Gang, founder of Gang & Associates, […]

Eric Gang of Gang & Associates is a Law Journal Innovator of the Year honoree. The below responses were lightly edited for clarity and style. What are some of your proudest achievements in 2022? Through the firm’s nonprofit foundation, the Disabled Veterans Resource Center, Inc., in 2022 we began a […]

For 30 years, Buncombe County resident John Paul Cook collected VA disability payments, even garnering several increases along the way as his allegedly poor vision continued to worsen. By 2016, with those increases for the severity of his “disability,” he was pulling in $3,990 a month. In total, from 1987- […]

Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, said he will be leaning on veterans to help him set the agenda when he becomes chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee in January. Moran, who has a home in Manhattan, will succeed Sen. Johnny Isakson, a Georgia Republican who officially retired this month after […]

Thomas Nielson served the U.S. military in Korea from 1950 to 1954. He first applied for VA disability benefits in 1960 when an autoimmune disease he developed in the service rendered him unable to pursue full time employment,  according to a statement by Elite Lawyer Management. After more than 50 […]

Thomas Nielson, a veteran who served the U.S. military in Korea from 1950 to 1954, first applied for VA disability benefits in 1960 when an autoimmune disease he developed in the service rendered him unable to pursue full time employment according to a statement by Elite Lawyer Management. This week, […]

The U.S. Navy’s move to potentially punish a decorated Navy SEAL, who was supported by an order from President Trump, is fueling a new debate over the military justice system’s treatment of active-duty service members and veterans. A senior U.S. defense official told Fox News on Tuesday that the top admiral in the […]

Thomas Nielson joined the Air Force when he was 17 and was promptly deployed to South Korea where the war against the communist-backed North was just getting underway. He served on the peninsula from 1950-54. However, Nielson’s real fight began after he returned home and filed for military medical benefits […]

ADS Inc., a Virginia-based company that supplies equipment and logistics for the U.S. military’s search-and-rescue operations, has agreed to pay $16 million to resolve allegations that it fraudulently secured government contracts. ADS obtained numerous contracts that were set aside for small businesses, in spite of the fact that the company […]

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs recently became the first federal government entity to recognize a connection between U.S. Navy activities and human health problems on Vieques with the awarding of a judgment in favor of a former Vieques security guard who suffers from a variety of ailments as a […]