The Board of Veterans' Appeals has denied the veteran's claims for service connection for a right knee disorder and Crohn's disease, as well as his attempt to reopen a claim for a right foot injury. The decision is based on the absence of evidence showing current disabilities or continuity of symptomatology.
The deciding factor: The Board found that there was no evidence of a chronic right knee disability in service and insufficient evidence of continuity of symptoms after service to establish a current disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Knee Disorder, Crohn's Disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 22, 2000
- Citation
- 0007665
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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- Partly granted
The Board denied an initial rating in excess of 10 percent for dermatitis and remanded the service connection claim for a right knee disorder.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for PTSD, awarded a 70 percent rating, and granted TDIU effective January 1, 2017.
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