The veteran's service-connected disabilities continued to preclude him from securing or following a substantially gainful occupation, and the Board found that he was entitled to a total rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities effective from December 21, 1948.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed no improvement in the veteran's symptoms and underlying disability, warranting a higher evaluation for his service-connected sciatic neuritis. The preponderance of the evidence supported entitlement to a total rating due to individual unemployability.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of shell fragment wounds to the lumbosacral spine, left sciatic neuritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- February 7, 2001
- Citation
- 0103855
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- Whole decision: Granted
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- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
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