The appeal for the claim of entitlement to service connection for an eye disorder claimed as secondary to the Type II diabetes mellitus disability is dismissed.
The deciding factor: The appellant withdrew his appeal for this specific issue, and there are no further allegations of error in fact or law regarding it.
- Claimed conditions
- eye disorder, cardiac disorder (hypertension)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 20, 2008
- Citation
- 0816492
What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Dismissed
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- Denied
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