The Board denied the veteran's appeal, finding no clear and unmistakable error in the November 1969 rating decision that rated his shell fragment wounds as a single disability.
The deciding factor: The RO did not commit CUE by failing to rate separate disabilities for the right buttock and left leg shell fragment wounds because the evidence at the time of the decision did not show symptoms warranting separate ratings, and application of different diagnostic codes would not have changed the outcome.
- Claimed conditions
- shell fragment wound of the right buttock, shell fragment wound of the left leg
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 3, 2002
- Citation
- 0211096
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What this means for you
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