The veteran's hammer toes disability of the right foot is a residual of his in-service injury and service connection is granted.
The deciding factor: The current hammer toes disability is related to an inservice injury, establishing all three requirements for service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- hammer toes of the right foot
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 5, 2009
- Citation
- 0900247
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.
What you can do next
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