The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been submitted to reopen the veteran's previously denied claim of service connection for residuals of a fracture of the right elbow.
The deciding factor: The newly submitted evidence does not provide the facts necessary to substantiate this claim.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a fracture of the right elbow
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 1, 2006
- Citation
- 0602874
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,669 · Granted: 23% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the appellant's claims for service connection for residuals of a fracture of the right elbow, hemorrhoids, and left partial parotidectomy. The effective date for the award of a 10 percent disability rating for residuals of a left partial parotidectomy was not established.
- Remanded (sent back)
The veteran's TDIU claim is being remanded for further development, including a VA medical examination to assess his employability due to service-connected disabilities.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the veteran's residuals of a fracture of the right elbow, with traumatic arthritis and ulnar nerve involvement do not warrant an evaluation in excess of 40 percent.
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the issues of CUE in the November 26, 1996, rating decisions that assigned separate 10 percent evaluations for residuals of a fracture of the right elbow and wrist.
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