Monthly Archives: December 2024
A Trap to Avoid in the VA/IDES General Medical Exam
After you file your claim through your MSC and they request exams for each of your conditions, you will be contacted by one of the three contractors the VA employs to conduct IDES C&P exams. When the contractor provides you with notice of the exams, you must ensure that this notice addresses all of your […]
A Key Question You Must Ask the VA Higher-level Reviewer
In several of my VA Higher-level Review conferences, I have found that the Higher-level Reviewer (“HLR”) was missing some of the evidence crucial to our case or that the copies they had were illegible. With this in mind, I highly recommend that you first make sure at the beginning of the conference that your HLR […]
Navy PEB Brings Back the IPEB Recon Process
At the end of October, the Navy formalized a process in which service members and their counsel may submit an IPEB reconsideration request to the President of the PEB after they request a formal hearing. This request is now called a President-directed IPEB Recon Request. An IPEB Reconsideration Request consists of a written brief with […]
