Nehmer Training Guide – Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange
Many Vietnam veterans are unaware that they may be entitled to an earlier effective date of award for presumptive conditions related to Agent Orange exposure pursuant to Nehmer v. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 712 F. Supp. 1404, 1409 (N.D. Cal. 1989). If a veteran filed a claim between September 25, 1985 and the date the VA published a presumption of service connection for one of...
Restrictive Lung Diseases (COPD) and Agent Orange . . . Scientific Research to Assist Your Claim
In November 2012, we published a short article entitled Agent Orange Presumptive Conditions – A Nation’s Belated Acknowledgement to Vietnam-Era Veterans. As the above article documents, while respiratory cancers are considered presumptively service connected to herbicide exposure, restrictive lung diseases (such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)) are not. But cf. Combee...