The Veteran's loss of use of the lower extremities is not considered to be caused by VA fault such as carelessness, negligence, lack of proper skill or error in judgment.
The deciding factor: VA medical treatment did not result from a foreseeable event and was not due to any fault on VA's part.
- Claimed conditions
- Loss of use of lower extremities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 2, 2009
- Citation
- 0941628
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