Appeals

[Done wit this]

I did an Iris Inquire Friday ,

Question was.. where my claims were at in the process.

The answer Was - Your claims went to appeals in August.

What kind of wait can I expect....With 1 IMO and 1 complete

medical Examination by a specailist... very complete ..

I went through hours in the MRI tube for this with needles in the joints of my shoulders for this.............

I guess the needles are common in my life ...

I just got another cortizone shot in my left shoulder on thursday...Sucks to be me get the right done the 11th of Nov ...... Hurts like hell for 3 days after the shots...... all for releif for around 4-6 months

Macool

[Done wit this]

WELL NOTHING YET ? ITS AT THE RATERS, COULD BE NOW- OR 6 YEARS. THE CLAIMS

ARE IN THE EXPEDITE PILE .THAT IS ONLY 6 FEET TALL -VS- 6 STORIES....

Macool

[Commander Bob]

I just got another cortizone shot in my left shoulder on thursday... Hurts like hell for 3 days after the shots...... all for releif for around 4-6 months

Macool :)

How's you shoulder doing? Is it a torn rotator cuff?

[evandc]

Once my claim reached the BVA, it was Remanded to VARO. That's when my real fun started. I had the ordered C & P. Then I got zero help getting the C & P back to Washington. Granted 30% in 1993, appealed to BVA in 1995 & got increased to 50% Oct 1999. I could write the book on how to NOT DO an appeal. Good luck, hope the BVA finds all yours duck in a row.

Don

Edited January 17, 2009 by evandc

[john999]

In my RO once a vet gets to the DRO (if he/she does not go to the BVA) and has his review or hearing it was pretty quick getting a decision. My latest DRO Hearing is really dragging out (6 months). Once it gets out of the RO on appeal just pray. No one knows how long it will take, and it can easily get caught up in the RO/BVA/Remand cycle for years. You could have your claim remanded back to the RO get another crummy decision, and start the appeal process all over, and you may never live to see it end. I was in that cycle for years before I got really serious and paid for some IMO's that broke the cycle. That is why many believe that getting it done at the RO is best. Just keep it there until you get what you want. It can be done by submitting new evidence everytime you get an SOC or decision. The drawback to submitting new evidence is that the VA may make your effective date based on the new evidence. But the thing is to win in your life time, and get the money rolling in while you are still breathing. Why it takes a DRO six months to make a decision after a hearing I cannot fathom. The evidence is all there. All they have to do is look at it. That defeats the reason for a hearing. You get the hearing to see the DRO face to face so he can remember you. After 6 months he probably does not remember a thing about you. I think the amount of the award is a big factor. The bigger the award the slower the rating.

[allan]

If your C&P or IMO is favorable, they may grant or simply send it to one on their contract dr's(whores) that will write any kind of denial the DVA wants to shoot it down.

This will put you in a possession where you'll have to get another C&P, payed for by you examination or another IMO to shoot down their unfavorable one.

This has been happening to me for 12 yrs. I'm in my 11th yr of appeal with the BVA.

Every time the AMC or BVA remands it to a VARO to process it. You can expect this or favorable evidence to go missing.

On the other hand, they may just grant it & you'll be done with it. It happens. It just hasn't happened to me.

Deny, remand. Submit more evidence, remand, deny. Submit more evidence, remand, deny...................

To keep it out of the hands of the VARO's that refuse to read the evidence and give it any weight, you must send a waiver to the BVA requesting they deside it instead of remanding it.

[Done wit this]

How's you shoulder doing? Is it a torn rotator cuff?

I had surgery ..So I really don,t know the Out come of it yet It was a torn tendon and frayed bone and some other small stuff not as bad as complete tear of the Rotater cuff the Doc tells me....I am Sore all the time from the surgery so I really won't know the out come until about 3-4 months ,,went back yesterday to see doc and he said my range of motion was good for two weeks out.. we will see I need to take my Tylenols now.. great ... Drive on soilder ..even if it is sore as heck..