The Board has granted a 10% evaluation for the veteran's left ulnar fracture residuals and finds that his chronic left shoulder disorder does not warrant service connection. The issue of entitlement to a total rating based on individual unemployability is being remanded.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not establish new and material evidence sufficient to reopen the claim of service connection for the chronic left shoulder disorder, but the veteran's ulnar fracture residuals are productive of no more than a limited range of motion with degenerative joint disease.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic left shoulder disorder, left ulnar fracture residuals
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- February 1, 2006
- Citation
- 0602811
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,515 · Granted: 20% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Denied
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