The Board has determined that the veteran's degenerative joint disease of the lumbar spine is proximately due to or aggravated by his service-connected fracture of the left metatarsal. The claim for an increased rating in excess of 10 percent for the fracture of the left metatarsal is granted.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the veteran's degenerative joint disease of the lumbar spine was proximately due to or aggravated by his service-connected fracture of the left metatarsal, resolving all reasonable doubt in favor of the veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Joint Disease of the Lumbar Spine, Fracture of the Proximal One-Third Left Fifth Metatarsal
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 23, 2002
- Citation
- 0204940
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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