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Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press, Veterans Law
Kristina Derro Veteran Disability Lawyer The U.S. Army is currently awaiting the delivery of 1,000 blast sensor packs to help specialists assess how soldiers are affected during and after exposure to explosions. The packs, called Soldier Body Units (SBU), consist of four sensors: the sensors collect data from the head and chest areas when soldiers […]
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Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press, Veterans Law
Jim Fausone Veteran Disability Lawyer Camp Lejeune is a Marine base in North Carolina. From 1957 to 1987, Marines and their families were exposed to contaminated ground water. Health officials believe as many as 1 million people may have been exposed to the tainted groundwater at Camp Lejeune over the thirty years. Last Monday, President […]
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Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press, Veterans Law
Brigadier General Carol Ann Fausone (Ret) The VA may soon be required to open all of its facilities up to service dogs that accompany veterans. But not all service dogs are created equal. The bill in question, HR 1627, requires that VA facilities give access to service dogs, but only if those dogs have been […]
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News and Press
Modern science is finding out traumatic brain injuries may age the brain faster, news that impacts veterans. Many veterans returning home from war zones have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury as a result of being exposed to concussive shock waves from IEDs. Like football players and other athletes who sustain multiple concussions, war veterans […]
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Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press
Jim Fausone Veteran Disability Lawyer Decades after one of the worst drinking water contaminations in U.S. history, affected Marines and their families may finally receive the health care they need. Camp Lejeune is a Marine base located in North Carolina. Over the course of 30 years, up to one million Marines and family members were […]
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Jim Fausone Veteran Disability Lawyer The tradition of burial at sea is an ancient one. On a listserv an attorney asked if he could paddle out onLake Michiganand spread the cremains of his brother. Only an attorney would worry about the regulations! Yes, US EPA regulates such activity. 40 CFR 229.1 contains the basic requirements […]
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Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press, Veterans Law
Jim Fausone Veteran Disability Lawyer It seems like the DOD and VA fight the most obvious and necessary things. Think about the atomic registry, the Gulf War registry, AO registry, etc. This time it’s the burn pits our men and women were exposed to inIraq andAfghanistan. Over objections from the VA, a House panel voted last […]
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News and Press
Of the troops who returned home from the Gulf War in the early 1990s, an estimated 21 percent filed claims seeking compensation for injuries suffered while on duty. That figure pales in comparison to the returnees from Iraq and Afghanistan. It is a record-setting number. In an array of figures disclosed to the Associated Press, […]
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Claims Processing, Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press
Jim Fausone Veteran Disability Lawyer Spread the word. Vietnam veterans are entitled to help and are not asking for it from the VA. Of the 7.4 million Vietnam-era veterans living today, only 1.16 million — 15.7 percent — receive VA disability benefits. That is far lower than the 44.3 percent of Iraq or Afghanistan War […]
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News and Press
California veterans returning home from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan are failing to get the care they need and deserve in alarming numbers. Errors and delays are rampant within the VA’s three regional offices in the Golden State, with the Oakland VAO coming under particularly heavy scrutiny in recent weeks. In Northern California, figures from […]
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