The veteran's service connection claim for residuals, crushing injury to right middle finger and amputation of distal phalanx right index finger is granted. A higher initial rating of 10 percent for bilateral hearing loss prior to February 12, 2004, is granted. Since then, a noncompensable rating is assigned.
The deciding factor: The veteran's pre-existing right finger disorder was aggravated by service and the evidence supports this finding.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals, crushing injury to right middle finger, amputation of distal phalanx right index finger
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- November 14, 2006
- Citation
- 0635339
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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.
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