The Board has granted service connection for residuals of a fourth lumbar vertebra fracture and assigned a 40 percent evaluation effective April 26, 2005. The veteran's claim for an earlier effective date is denied.
The deciding factor: There was no clear and unmistakable error in the June 1954 or July 1958 RO decisions that denied service connection for a back disability or in the April 2005 RO decision that granted service connection for residuals of a fourth lumbar vertebra fracture.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a fourth lumbar vertebra fracture
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- November 16, 2007
- Citation
- 0736238
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