The veteran's right wrist disability was granted a 40 percent evaluation, resolving reasonable doubt in the veteran's favor.
The deciding factor: The severe degenerative changes and instability of the right wrist warranted an increased rating to 40 percent under the criteria for evaluating wrist disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- healed fracture of the right wrist with degenerative changes, scar, right wrist
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- May 16, 2008
- Citation
- 0816310
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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