The Board denied the veteran's claims for an earlier effective date and a compensable disability rating for osteomyelitis of the left hip, finding that his service connection was granted on a historical basis without clear and unmistakable error.
The deciding factor: The July 1953 decision granting service connection for the residuals of a gunshot wound to the left thigh did not contain clear and unmistakable error in failing to grant service connection for osteomyelitis, as the correct facts were before the decisionmakers at that time and the relevant law was correctly applied.
- Claimed conditions
- Osteomyelitis of the left hip
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 15, 2001
- Citation
- 0126417
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