The Board has dismissed the appeal because the veteran died during the pendency of the appeal.
The deciding factor: The veteran's death rendered the appeal moot as veterans' claims do not survive their deaths.
- Claimed conditions
- postoperative residuals of right medial meniscectomy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 10, 2005
- Citation
- 0503575
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,710 · Granted: 15% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the veteran's postoperative residuals of right medial meniscectomy do not warrant a rating in excess of 20 percent, as there is no evidence of instability or ankylosis. The current 20 percent rating adequately reflects the functional impairment.
- Remanded (sent back)
The veteran's claim for an increased rating for his right knee disability is being remanded due to the need for a new VA examination and consideration of all submitted evidence.
- Denied
The VA denied the veteran's claim for an increased evaluation for postoperative residuals of a right medial meniscectomy, maintaining the current 10 percent rating. The VA also maintained the 10 percent rating for degenerative arthritis in the right knee.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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