The Board has granted service connection for a right hip disability as secondary to the veteran's service-connected residuals of a compound, comminuted fracture of the right tibia and a simple fracture of the right fibula. The claim for increased rating remains pending.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the veteran's right hip strain is causally related to her service-connected right lower extremity disability (compound, comminuted fracture of the right tibia and a simple fracture of the right fibula).
- Claimed conditions
- Back Disability, Right Hip Disability, Left Hip Disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- November 10, 2003
- Citation
- 0331013
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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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