The Board has denied the veteran's claims for earlier effective dates for service connection of chronic anterior cruciate ligament tear, right knee and traumatic arthritis, right knee.
The deciding factor: The RO granted service connection for these conditions with a 10% disability evaluation effective May 21, 2001. The Board found that the claims were not well-grounded prior to this date and thus no earlier effective dates are warranted.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic anterior cruciate ligament tear, right knee, traumatic arthritis, right knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 5, 2008
- Citation
- 0818529
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