( February 12, 2026, 8:41 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a veterans court’s decision limiting a fee award to attorney for representing a veteran in the benefits adjudication process, finding that under federal law, the attorney was only owed fees related to her representation of the veteran’s neck injury claim and not claims filed after a notice of disagreement (NOD) was filed appealing the claim to the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (Shannon Holstein v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, No. 2023-1451, Fed. Cir., 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 2762)....