Court Opinion

ID: 6612279
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 20:18:35.435175+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:58:24.153068
License: Public Domain

KRAMER, Judge,
concurring:
In sustaining a rating reduction for epilepsy, the Board of Veterans’ Appeals, pursuant to 38 C.F.R. § 4.124a, Diagnostic Code (DC) 8910 (1994), must make, based on adequate evidence of record, a finding as to the frequency and type of seizures that the veteran is experiencing. That finding must then, under the DC, support a rating at the reduced level. Here neither the medical opinion relied on by the Board nor the lay statements provide such evidence, and consequently the Board’s decision was “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.” 38 U.S.C. § 7261(a)(3)(A).