Re-opening a claim after more than one year when it was denied.

[Marcelino.Rodriguez]

I am in the process of opening several claims that were denied more than one year ago and I never appealed the denials. What would be the process that I need to follow in order to re-open the claims.

 

Thank you.

[brokensoldier244th]

Ill have to keep my eyes open for that, then. I haven't come across any, but we get a lot of detritus from other offices sent to us. They are being told by their mid-level sups that if a claim has MST on it at all just boot it to us with no other development. What is supposed to happen is that they develop the non-MST contentions as much as they can THEN send to us. We then continue to follow/develop the non MST stuff, and the MST stuff because those claims, once here, stay here with us. It delays the claim a lot if there is nothing done to it because they saw MST on it and then we start on it from scratch. The system will also sometimes label a claim that way if it's not- say you went to Air Assault or Mountain Assault school or something- guess what....... That has been reported by me and a few others, and is supposed to get fixed.

 

Thank you for the heads up. 

Edited March 1 by brokensoldier244th