The Board has granted a 40 percent rating for the veteran's gunshot wound, Muscle Group XX, right lumbar with closed comminuted fracture, spinal process, 4th lumbar.
The deciding factor: The clinical findings and examination results supported the need for a higher rating based on the residual disability from the gunshot wound.
- Claimed conditions
- gunshot wound, Muscle Group XX, right lumbar with closed comminuted fracture, spinal process, 4th lumbar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- May 5, 2006
- Citation
- 0613178
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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.
What you can do next
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including obtaining treatment records from Drs. E.D. and J.P., and for a VA medical opinion regarding the relationship between the veteran's gunshot wound and his cause of death.
- Denied
The VA determined that the veteran's service-connected disabilities do not render him unemployable, and thus denied his claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability.
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