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02/25/2026

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At Glover Luck LLP, we believe that the men and women who have served our country deserve the utmost respect and support. Our firm was founded with a singular mission: to provide exceptional legal representation to veterans who are seeking the benefits they have earned. We focus exclusively on veter...

02/25/2026

01/27/2024

To keep up with “unprecedented growth” in demand for VA health care under the PACT Act, VHA is running “access sprints” to increase appointment availability across three areas of care — cardiology, mental health and gastroenterology.

However, wait times for mental health care appointments, depending on the location, have either held steady at about 21-22 days, or increased, despite VHA's record hiring of mental health clinicians in FY 2023.

The agency hired more than 4,200 mental health clinicians from outside the VA health care system. Those include more than 670 psychologists, more than 350 psychiatrists and more than 1,400 mental health social workers.

“Overall, the American health care system does not have enough mental health clinicians, which is why we’re trying to do a lot of work in building that pipeline,” VA Under Secretary for Health Shereef Elnahal said.

Read more about the VHA's push to provide more access to medical appointments below.

The Veterans Health Administration is looking to raise workforce productivity, after a record year of hiring, and increase the number of health care appointments available to patients.

01/26/2024

A recent Department of Defense study found cognitive deficits and memory problems among personnel who repeatedly fired heavy weaponry, even within allowable safety limits. Another report noted that 75% of blast exposure issues in one unit studied were tied to troops’ own weapons, rather than outside forces.

In response, a trio of senators want the Defense Department to speed up monitoring military brain injuries caused by concussive blasts from service members’ own weapons and outline efforts to protect the force from future trauma.

The move follows reports of troops suffering significant injuries from the concussive blasts from their own weapons.

01/20/2024

We have been fighting for disability compensation based on in-service exposure to PFAS for years.

Recently, two House lawmakers have proposed legislation to compensate military service members who were possibly exposed to cancer or other illnesses from chemicals used in fire retardants.

The proposed bill would authorize the creation of the Military Firefighters Compensation Fund. Allocation methods and amounts for the fund would be determined later.

Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-01-14/military-firefighters-cancer-pfas-foam-chemicals-12669163.html?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mil-ebb&SToverlay=342f5a58-c37b-4142-b049-1f737335b507
Source - Stars and Stripes

Two House lawmakers have proposed legislation to compensate military service members who were possibly exposed to cancer or other illnesses from chemicals used in fire retardants.

01/19/2024

In 2023, the VA completed nearly 2 million veteran and survivor claims, the most in agency history and up almost 16% from the previous year. Through the first three months of fiscal 2024, his staffers are 34% ahead of last year’s pace.

However, the total number of backlogged initial benefits claims in the system — cases that have taken more than four months to complete — earlier this month topped 400,000, the highest that figure has been since June 2014.

The VA cites disruptions in office work during the pandemic and new cases filed in the wake of the PACT Act passage in 2022 as the reasons for the steady rise in pending claims over the last 16 months. The total caseload in fiscal 2023 was nearly 40% higher than the previous year, meaning the record processing work wasn’t enough to keep up.

You can ready more about the status of claims processing at the link below.

A record pace for finishing claims in fiscal 2023 and so far in fiscal 2024 hasn't been enough to slow the department's backlog of cases.

12/19/2023

Of the 5 million Veterans who have been screened for toxic exposure under the PACT Act, nearly half were found to have had some sort of exposure. While this doesn't necessarily translate to entitlement to disability compensation, it does help to remove some hurdles to entitlement.

If you experienced toxic exposure in service, but the VA has denied entitlement to disability compensation, we might be able to help. Please reach out for a free consultation.

Nearly half of the 5 million veterans that have been screened by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) under a new law have reported at least one possible exposure to toxic substances during thei…

12/16/2023

There's common misconception that the VA healthcare system is immune from malpractice lawsuits. Did you know there are actually two ways to potentially receive compensation from VA healthcare negligence or for an unforeseen outcome of VA medical treatment?

We assist Veterans with claims for compensation under Title 38 U.S.C. Section 1151, which allows for disabilities caused by VA medical negligence or that were not a reasonably foreseeable outcome of VA-provided healthcare to be compensated as though they are service-connected disabilities.

The other path to compensation for VA healthcare negligence is through the Federal Tort Claims Act. The article below discusses a recent suit based on a glitch in the VA's electronic health record system that delayed a Veteran's cancer diagnosis until it had become terminal. You can read more below, and if you have suffered a disability caused or made worse by VA medical care, please reach out to us for a free case review.

WASHINGTON – An Eastern Washington veteran and his wife are suing the federal government and the companies behind a computer system the Department of Veterans Affairs has tested in Spokane, alleging that flaws in the system delayed the diagnosis of cancer that became terminal before it could be tr...

12/16/2023

Watchdog groups warn that the VA is still not vetting or properly screening many of its employees, the agency and auditors told Congress on Wednesday, putting veterans at an increased risk of harm.

Although VA maintains a multi-step process to vet employees both before and after their onboarding, multiple audits have shown those reviews were often delayed or did not occur at all.

An official with the GAO related that VA has more than 12,000 employees with a criminal history related to controlled substances, and 1,800 have felony convictions. This is a concern, as many VA employees have access to controlled substances. VA saw 1,400 incidents of controlled substance theft or loss in 2021, accounting for 7% of all such incidents reported to the Drug Enforcement Administration that year. You can read more below.

The department does not have a good explanation for why the shortfalls occurred, officials say.

12/15/2023

A new class action lawsuit has been filed against Texas-based VA Claims Insider (VACI) alleging that neither VA Claims Insider, LLC, nor its employees or directors are accredited by the VA, meaning they cannot lawfully help veterans prepare disability compensation claims. The suit further charges that VACI owner Brian T. Reese and CFO Laurel Reese have repeatedly made false statements implying that the VA approves of their services and falsely touted the nature of the help they provide veterans. Moreover, the suit alleges that statements made by the defendants online, highlighting how they supposedly assist veterans, mislead reasonable vets into believing their employees and agents are accredited with the VA.

Per the case, the VA also reached out to the Texas Office of the Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division to share that VACI’s practices “were clearly intended to ‘game the system.’” In light of a slew of complaints about VACI, the Texas AG, as part of its investigation into the defendants, ordered the group to provide documents about its practices.

We STONGLY oppose the business practices of unaccredited individuals and companies such as VACI that prey on Veterans, flaunt the law, and charge fees which are both illegal and inconsistent with the services they provide. Read the lawsuit below:

A class action alleges that neither VA Claims Insider nor its employees or directors are accredited by the federal government to help veterans prep VA disability claims.

12/14/2023

Although we have been pursuing service connection claims based on this exposure for years, the Air Force is finally expanding a study of whether service members who worked with nuclear missiles have had unusually high rates of cancer, after a preliminary review determined that a deeper examination is needed.

The initial study was launched in response to reports that many who served are now ill. The Air Force isn’t making its initial findings of cancer numbers public for a month or so, but released its initial assessment Monday that more review is necessary.

The findings are part of a sweeping review undertaken by the Air Force earlier this year to determine if missileers — the launch officers who work underground to operate the nation’s silo-launched nuclear missiles — were exposed to unsafe contaminants. The review began after scores of those current or former missile launch officers came forward this year to report they have been diagnosed with cancer.

Air Force medical teams have conducted thousands of tests of the air, water, soil and surface areas inside and around each of the Air Force’s three nuclear missile bases: Malmstrom Air Force Base (MT), Minot Air Force Base (ND), and F.E. Warren Air Force Base (WY).

You can read more below, and if you think you may have a condition related to exposure at one of these missile bases, we'd be happy to take a look at your case and see if we can help.

The expanded Air Force study will consider a broader range of career fields as well as an additional base.

12/13/2023

The attorney general’s charges against VA Claims Insider echo allegations in an investigation The Texas Tribune published in July.