Almost five years after Afghanistan war veteran Lionel Desmond killed three family members and himself, an inquiry is expected to draw to a close next month in Nova Scotia with ...
ATLANTA (AP) — An investigation finds the now-retired leader of Georgia’s veterans agency sexually harassed his secretary, part of a general pattern of demeaning behavior toward women and minorities.The state ...
A lack of collaboration among health-care professionals was an “overwhelming theme” in the tragic case of an ex-soldier from Nova Scotia who killed three family members and himself in ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) amends its adjudication regulations concerning the nature of evidence that VA will accept as proof of military service and character of discharge. In the ...
Panel Application; the Veterans Benefits Administration Adjudication Procedures Manual (M21-1MR) are intended to describe the type of VA medical record that qualifies as a “report of examination.” In particular, ...
Single Judge Application; tinnitus; Murphy v. Wilkie, 983 F.3d 1313, 1318 (Fed. Cir. 2020) (endorsing Clemons and explaining that “VA shall afford lenity to a veteran’s filings; evidence developed ...
An internal review of how Veterans Affairs handled the tragic case of a former soldier who killed his family and himself in 2017 says changes must be made to ...
The Veterans Affairs case manager assigned to help Lionel Desmond reintegrate into civilian life explained to a fatality inquiry Tuesday why it took six months before she could offer ...
The former manager of a clinic for veterans in Nova Scotia told an inquiry today the facility had a shortage of psychiatric services when former soldier Lionel Desmond was ...
Lionel Desmond was a desperately ill man, and he knew it.The former Canadian soldier was suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder and a possible traumatic brain injury when he ...