The veteran's service-connected disabilities are not shown to be of such nature and severity as to preclude the performance of all types of substantially gainful employment, thus denying a total evaluation based on individual unemployability.
The deciding factor: The combined schedular evaluation for the veteran's multiple service-connected disabilities is 40 percent, less than the required 70 percent or more under VA regulations.
- Claimed conditions
- Posterior broad-based bulging disc at L4-L5, Chronic left thigh pain, status post fracture of the femur and intramedullary rodding with shortening of the left lower extremity, Left L4 radiculopathy, Lumbosacral radiculopathy of the right lower extremity, Surgical scar of the left hip
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- July 24, 2006
- Citation
- 0621739
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