The Board denied service connection for a right elbow disability, bilateral hearing loss, and a bilateral ankle disability. The claims of entitlement to service connection for left knee and back disabilities were reopened based on new and material evidence, but the veteran was not granted service connection for these conditions. The veteran's initial rating for chondromalacia, right knee, remained at 10 percent.
The deciding factor: The lack of a current disability or medical nexus to service precluded granting service connection for the right elbow, bilateral hearing loss, and bilateral ankle disabilities. However, new and material evidence was found sufficient to reopen the claims for left knee and back disabilities, but these were not granted on the merits.
- Claimed conditions
- right elbow disability, bilateral hearing loss, bilateral ankle disability, left knee disability, back disability
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 29, 2008
- Citation
- 0814004
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Decisions by this judge: 2,242 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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