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NOVA petitions the Court because the rule, as revised, established an arbitrary requirement that under certain conditions only Department of Veterans Affairs ("VA") examiners can corroborate a stressor which a veteran claims caused his or her Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ("PTSD").
Contrary to law, the Secretary failed to provide any basis for such a fundamental change to the longstanding acceptance of diagnoses from qualified private examiners, and indeed there is no such basis. The Secretary thus exceeded his authority and promulgated an arbitrary rule elevating the opinion of a VA examiner over a private examiner. This action threatens to harm vulnerable claimants who are being privately treated for PTSD but who are unable to persuade a VA-appointed examiner of the merits of their claim.
http://www.vawatchdog.org/10/nf10/nfsep10/nf092010-1.htm
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