The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection and a compensable rating for his back injury, bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, and scar from the excision of a wart on his right hand. The decision is final as it does not address any issues related to service connection.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not meet the criteria for a compensable disability rating for the scar from the excision of a wart on the veteran's right hand, and there was no indication that the other conditions were service-connected.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a back injury, bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 26, 2001
- Citation
- 0117070
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