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Ao Thailand
Since the C & P Bulletin came out. I need to find it here.
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Nehmer Work In Progress
http://www.nvlsp.org/Information/ArticleLi...enefitrules.htm I am building an info base here for any anticipated Nehmer questions due to the 3 new presumptives or to any AO claim. http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=ca...I82OJiAWR99KxLw http://www4.va.gov/vetapp02/files02/0209543.txt (widow's award with excellent BVA interpretation of Nehmer as to her claim.) http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/archive/...hp/t-14278.html
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Chloracne
Hello: Ok try this one, I have bumps on my arms neck and cheek bones they come up as white balls and when in dig the core our they are little round hard white balls and leave a scar. I have been to several doctors and none of them will diagnose chloracne. They say unknown bacterial infection and one dermatologist said it was a bacterial infection in my nose and when I touch my nose then my arms it causes the bumps. I filed a claim for this in 87 again in 02 and V. A. states without doctor diagnoses could not help. How do you get a doctor to say what this really is?
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Delay Ischemic Heart Disease
Just got letter from V.A. Dear Mr (Tinkerer) We have received your compensation claim for ischemic heart disease based on herbicide exposure. However, this disease has not yet been added to the Department of Veterans Affairs regulations governing diseases presumptively associated with herbicide exposure. In order to add this disease, we must follow a series of legal requirements, including publishing a notice in the Federal Register. We have begun this process, but are holding your claim until these requirements have been met. When the process is complete, we will make a determination on your claim and provide you with a notice of our decision. My guess, enou…
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Vet Wins U.s. Ao Case
Congrats to James Cripps. http://www.newschannel5.com/global/story.asp?s=11488032
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Ao Widow's
The Ninth Circuit Court has held that 38 CFR 816 (Nehmer Court order and stipulation) provides that "if a class action member's claim for cause of death or other DIC benefits was received by VA between May 3,1989 and the effrective date of the statute or regulation estabklishing a presumption of service connection for the covered herbicide disease thatcaused the death,the effective date of the award will be the later of the date such claim was received by VA or the date death occurred. a case at the BVA (Citation 0915051- DOcket 07-37 136) explains this better than I could. Vietnam Vet dies Feb 2002 CLL contributing to death Widow files DIC April 2002 denied …
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Ao Presumptives
What about the children of male Vietnam Veterans? What about miscarriages of female Vietnam Veterans and wives of male Vietnam Veterans? Just curious if anyone has any info about these scenarios.
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Agent Orange Attorney Dies
Agent Orange attorney John O'Quinn,Esq., who shared in the $10,767,443.63 lawyer fees, of the $180 million AO lawsuit settlement on may 6, 1984, died this morning in a single car accident in Houston TX.. The SUV he was driving hit a tree in the rain. Fed Judge Weinstine approved the settlement, that relegated the Agent Orange issue from the front page of the newspapers back to page 22, and set the truth about dioxin back decades. The class action lawsuit netted some vets $12,000 max. Most got nothing. I met him 25 years ago, when I testified against the settlement.... RIP.
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Temporary Sc Disability For Ao And Prostate Ca
I need some help. I am currently receiving sc disability for prostate cancer (100%). I started receiving benefits in 2007, and had a radical prostatectomy that same year. Now, I am getting ready to retire from federal employment, and the disability money goes a long way to help with my retirement plans. I just learned that my disability was declared temporary, but never received notification from VA (my employer). Now I am concerned that I can wake up some morning, and not have the sc disability check. My psa's are normal, but I am still having major problems with leakage and other related problems (ahem, read between the lines for that one). Question, should I jus…
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Ischemic Heart Disease
I was diagnosed with CAD by the VA back in 1986 after an angiogram revealed two blockages, one 70% and the other 90%. The VA decided surgery or angioplasty was not warranted so they released me with meds. At the time I wasn’t SC and it was really hard getting the VA to treat me after that so I found a civilian cardio and he recommended angioplasty in 1987. The angioplasty went south on the table and I was rushed into open heart surgery for what turned out to be a triple bypass. Within 1 ½ yrs I suffered a heart attack as two of the three bypasses clogged up. A year after that the third one clogged causing another heart attack. My cardio said I’d never work again and he …
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Ao Presumptive Conditions
x x x I haven't seen the Federal Register yet, but thisnews is in ... ~Wings Shinseki steps up By Bruce Coulter Tue Oct 20, 2009, 04:24 PM EDT http://www.wickedlocal.com/burlington/news...inseki-steps-up -snip- Burlington - Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki went deep for veterans last week when he granted immediate service-connection to Vietnam veterans suffering from Parkinson’s disease, ischemic heart disease and hairy-cell leukemia as a result of exposure to Agent Orange (AO), an herbicide, between January 1965 and April 1970. Some 2.5 million Vietnam veterans are believed to have been exposed to the herbicide. -snip- …
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Hr 2254
as of today Senator Gillibrand today posted the bill in the house you can find out more information http://bluewaternavy.org/ great news
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