The Board denied a total disability compensation rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to the veteran's service-connected lumbar spine disability, and did not find clear and unmistakable error in this decision.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the veteran was not precluded from all forms of substantially gainful employment by virtue of his service-connected low back disability alone.
- Claimed conditions
- status post lumbar laminectomy with left L4-L5 and right L5-S1, left lumbar radiculopathy, total laminectomy at L2-L5, cervical spondylosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- March 25, 2004
- Citation
- 0407852
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 541 · Granted: 32% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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