Alvarado v. Law Offices of Kurt Gronau

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that it is the province of trained health care professionals to enter conclusions that require medical expertise, such as opinions as to diagnosis and causation
• reviewing Board's denial of service connection for glaucoma as secondary to treatment for blepharoconjunctivitis
• Regarding VA's duty in increased rating claims to provide appropriate medical examinations
• lay testimony that one condition was caused by service-connected condition was insufficient to well ground claim
• claim for increased rating was not well grounded where only asserted ground for increase was that service-connected condition had caused secondary condition, but no medical evidence had been presented to establish such causation
• medical evidence required to well ground claim for secondary service connection for glaucoma

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).