The Board has dismissed the veteran's appeal for entitlement to service connection for hypertension due to a lack of timely receipt of a substantive appeal. The issues of compensable ratings for bursitis of the right hip, degenerative joint disease of the cervical spine, and residuals of a right spontaneous pneumothorax are remanded for further development.
The deciding factor: The veteran did not file a timely substantive appeal regarding her claim for service connection for hypertension. The Board dismissed this issue as a result.
- Claimed conditions
- hypertension, bursitis of the right hip, degenerative joint disease of the cervical spine, residuals of a right spontaneous pneumothorax, status post thoracoscopy with bleb resection and mechanical pleurodesis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 21, 2003
- Citation
- 0307510
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
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- Granted
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- Partly granted
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- Dismissed
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