Waters v. Shinseki

How courts have described this case

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• holding that conclusory lay assertion of nexus is insufficient to entitle claimant to provision of VA medical examination
• holding that a veteran’s mere conclusory generalized lay statement that a service event or illness caused the claimant’s current condition is insufficient to require the Secretary to provide a VA examination
• holding that a veteran’s mere conclusory generalized lay statement that a service event or illness caused the claimant’s current condition is insufficient to require the Secretary to provide a VA examination
• concluding that a veteran's lay belief that his schizophrenia aggravated his diabetes and hypertension was not of sufficient weight to trigger the Secretary's duty to seek a medical opinion on the issue
• holding that, because the claimant had not shown any factual basis for his claim, \any possible error by the Board in using the wrong standard under [the nexus element of the McLendon test] could not have prejudiced [the claimant]\
• explaining that something more than an appellant's conclusory, generalized statement is needed to trigger VA's duty to assist by providing a medical nexus examination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).