Serving Veterans Worldwide Veterans Benefits Practice Group
Attorneys in the Veterans Practice Group at Goodman, Allen & Filetti, PLLC, have been fighting for veterans and their families since 1998. We have represented more than 1,200 veterans, and their widows and children living in all 50 states and several foreign countries, helping them get the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits they deserve. We represent veterans and their dependents on claims for service connection on every sort of disability imaginable, ranging from post-traumatic stress disorder, to low back conditions, to cancer caused by radiation exposure to asbestos-related diseases and everything in between. We also help our clients get unemployability benefits, non-service-connected pensions, increased ratings, earlier effective dates, widow’s benefits, and education and home loan benefits to name a few. The Veterans Benefits Practice Group attorneys work for their clients at all stages of the VA claims process, from the Regional Office to the Board of Veterans’ Appeals, to the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Some of the most common complaints we hear from our clients about the VA system are: “It takes so long for VA to decide my case it feels like they’re just waiting for me to die!” "It seems like VA does everything it can to delay my case—asking for the same records over and over again—and getting examination after examination. Why can’t they just make a decision?” “Every time VA sends me to the doctor for an examination, he spends five minutes examining me, and then just writes what VA wants to hear to deny me again.” With obstacles like these you deserve to have experienced representation on your side. We work diligently on our client’s claims in an effort to get results as quickly as possible by: • Explaining how the VA system works and what evidence is needed to win your case. • Working with you to get the evidence you need to substantiate your claim. • Staying in touch with you, letting you know where your case stands, and answering your questions. • Watching the VA closely, and challenging them if they do something to delay your case without good cause Military Medical Malpractice Our military medical malpractice group was established by Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Richard Gasperini, the former Chief of Army Tort Litigation in The Pentagon, to provide quality legal representation to the military community. Colonel Gasperini believed that soldiers, veterans, and their families deserved the same competent, vigorous representation as their civilian counterparts, and that their lawyers should not simply “dabble” in military/VA work, but concentrate in it. He also believed that soldiers and their families would be best served by lawyers who, as veterans, had shared the unique experiences of military service. Colonel Gasperini therefore assembled a group of exceptional military trial attorneys and created the Military Medical Malpractice Legal Network. Our team includes a former Navy Judge, a Harvard Law School graduate who tried medical malpractice cases for the Army, the former medical claims judge advocate at Fort Bragg's Womack Army Medical Center, a retired Air Force lab technician who served in Air Force Hospitals throughout the United States, and a former combat infantryman who fought in Operation Desert Storm. As veterans, our military medical malpractice attorneys know the challenges faced by military families. We understand the relationship between military care, TRICARE and VA care because our families have been the beneficiaries of such programs. We appreciate the strains of deployment and separation because we have all experienced those strains. We understand the system, we speak your language, and we appreciate the challenges you face as members of the military community. For further information, please visit our Military Malpractice site www.militarymedmal.net
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