The Board has granted service connection for loss of vision in the left eye and is now remanding the issue of entitlement to an initial compensable evaluation for service-connected shell fragment wound, right eye.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on a finding that the veteran's current left eye vision loss is likely attributable to toxoplasmosis infection contracted during his World War II combat service. The RO needs to assign an appropriate rating for the veteran's now service-connected left eye disability.
- Claimed conditions
- shell fragment wound, right eye, loss of vision, left eye
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 22, 2006
- Citation
- 0639761
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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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