The U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issue dozens of precedential decisions each year that affect hundreds of thousands of veterans, dependents, and survivors who have claims before VA regional offices and the Board of Veterans’ Appeals. Without an understanding of recent caselaw, you will be less effective in developing strategies and arguments to win VA claims. These court decisions could provide new ways for you to help claimants establish entitlement to VA benefits, but might also invalidate arguments you’ve made for claims that are awaiting a decision by the VA.

This webinar will highlight the most important changes in veterans law stemming from court decisions issued from July 2024 through November 2024, with a focus on how advocates can use these developments to the advantage of the claimants they represent. By the end of this webinar, you should understand:

• Whether veterans must demonstrate the need for a “higher level of care” to qualify for special monthly compensation “t” for residuals of traumatic brain injury
• Whether a veteran may receive separate evaluations for paralysis, neuritis, and neuralgia of the same nerve
• Whether a regional office decision reducing a veteran’s disability rating must be voided if it does not include certain findings required by VA regulations, but the BVA later provides those findings
• Whether separately rated neurological complications of a spine disability always remain part of the underlying spine disability claim for appellate purposes
• Whether a BVA order remanding a claim subject to the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act (AMA) is a final decision over which the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims has jurisdiction
• Court holdings on many other important issues