The LA RO is extremely slow. The DRO and my attorney, Ken Carpenter, had their hearing two years ago (10/09/2009) and I still have not had a C&P exam. Last week, my attorney was ready to file a writ of mandamus, but then he was in Washington DC recently and met some people who worked in the VA Central office, and they told him that maybe they could help him get claims moving faster at the LARO. Ken Carpenter, plans to ask for their help with my claim being first. My claim has been at this RO's DRO level for over three years now with very little being done.
The original DRO working the claim challenged many items in the IME that Dr. Bash did on me in Washington DC. I flew to Washington DC and picked up a copy of my C file from AMC that I had ordered 10 months earlier and took it to Dr. Bash, so that he would have my complete C file. He did a physical exam of me.
I did receive a grant of service connection prolly because of the weight of Dr. Bash's IME, but the exam letter was full of typographic errors and I believe this is why this DRO has focused on challenging it. He sent two clarification letters to Dr. Bash that appeared to try to discredit his IME and possibly remove my service connection. My attorney sent a letter to Dr. Bash asking him to not reply to the clarification letters. I have a great deal of respect for DR. Bash, but on the other hand, his IME was full of typo's and misplaced words.
The DRO mentioned above retired in December 2010, since then my claim has been collecting dust.
This has been a long haul for me and my family