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27 Jun 2017, 3:19 pm
Johanne Savard, the Ombudsman for the City of Montreal, will serve as the Board Chair.Other board members are:Lori Ciani, Ombudsman at AMEX;Nora Farrell, Ombudsman at Ryerson University;Barbra Finlay, Deputy Ombudsman for Ontario;Nadine Mailloux; Ombudsman at Laval University;William Smith; Ombudsman for Nova Scotia;Joëlle Thibault, Employee Ombudsman for Hydro-Québec;Sandra Morrison, Ombudsman at Scotiabank;Shirley Nakata, Ombudsman at the University of British Columbia; andGuy… [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 6:57 am
Before any lump sum payment may be made, any reduction for Veterans Affairs disability compensation must be factored. [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 6:57 am
Before any lump sum payment may be made, any reduction for Veterans Affairs disability compensation must be factored. [read post]
26 Jun 2017, 6:56 pm
The Federal Circuit applies a presumption that the medical professionals whom the Department of Veterans Affairs uses to evaluate these disabled veterans are competent to provide their opinions on any medical issues, which – veterans argue – then imposes a difficult burden on disabled veterans to show that the examiners are not in fact competent. [read post]
26 Jun 2017, 3:26 pm
Shulkin: Lower courts often presume that Department of Veterans Affairs medical examiners are competent to render expert opinions against veterans seeking compensation for disabilities they have suffered during military service. [read post]
26 Jun 2017, 1:58 pm
Shulkin, a case challenging deference to medical examiners in the Department of Veterans Affairs, Gorsuch dissented alone from denial of certiorari, not counting a separate statement by Justice Sotomayor. [read post]
26 Jun 2017, 9:27 am
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, June 26, at 5:30 pm: At the Brookings Institution, the Brookings Book Club will host Ambassador James Dobbins for a conversation on his new memoir, Foreign Service: Five Decades on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy. [read post]
23 Jun 2017, 9:38 am
Today President Trump signed the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act into law. [read post]
23 Jun 2017, 7:00 am
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). [read post]
23 Jun 2017, 6:07 am
Ronald CalderonLos Angeles Times – Patrick McGreevy | Published: 6/19/2017 Mercury Public Affairs agreed to pay a $4,000 fine for violating the $10 gift limit on lobbying firms when it provided dinners worth $200 to former state Sen. [read post]
23 Jun 2017, 3:30 am
” Reuters explains that “researchers examined data on more than 75,000 veterans with dementia and found that among patients who received all of their care at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities, 39 percent had potential safety issues with prescribed medications. [read post]
22 Jun 2017, 7:30 am
In order for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to award service-connection for a disability, the Veteran must establish these three elements: A current chronic physical or mental condition; An event or stressor that occurred during Active Duty service; and A link (also known as a ‘nexus’) that connects the chronic condition to the in-service event. [read post]
21 Jun 2017, 8:47 am
Department of Veterans Affairs medical evaluators, (including physician assistants, nurses and other non-physician health practitioners) to provide an expert opinion on any medical issue, thereby placing the burden on disabled veteran claimants, most of whom are pro se and many of whom suffer “from very significant psychiatric and physical disabilities,” to rebut the presumption by raising a competency objection, by ascertaining evidence of the… [read post]
21 Jun 2017, 7:59 am
But the last of this week’s new relists, which involves the Federal Circuit’s rule for which party to a disability dispute has to establish whether Veterans Affairs doctors who submit opinions are competent, taxes even my ability to feign interest. [read post]
20 Jun 2017, 7:27 am
Veterans Affairs official files FOIA request to spy on whistle-blowerBy Pete Kasperowicz, Washington Examiner, June 20, 2017A Department of Veterans Affairs official has taken the novel step of filing a Freedom of Information Act request against her own VA department in order to learn what a whistleblower has been saying about her.The whistleblower is Scott Davis, a well-known VA official who has testified in Congress and has made several TV appearances about the… [read post]
19 Jun 2017, 10:03 am
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, June 19 at 2:00pm: The Wilson Center will host a launch event for Michael F. [read post]
19 Jun 2017, 8:17 am
Department of Veteran Affairs was used to compare people who used PPIs to those who used an alternative known as an H2 blocker. [read post]
19 Jun 2017, 8:17 am
Department of Veteran Affairs was used to compare people who used PPIs to those who used an alternative known as an H2 blocker. [read post]
16 Jun 2017, 10:00 am
Department of Veterans Affairs. [read post]
15 Jun 2017, 1:04 pm
A resolution sponsored by Senator Joe Kyrillos (R-Monmouth) and Senator Sandra Cunningham (R-Hudson) urging Congress to designate the September 11 Memorial and Museum as a national memorial was advanced by the Senate Military and Veterans Affairs Committee. [read post]
