The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection of a right hand laceration as secondary to his service-connected left knee disability and denied entitlement to an effective date earlier than March 24, 2006, for the award of a 40 percent rating for his service-connected residuals of left anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not support that the right hand laceration was incurred or aggravated by his service-connected left knee disability. The Board found no factual basis to grant an earlier effective date for the increased rating as there was no increase in disability prior to March 24, 2006.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Hand Laceration, Left Knee Disability (Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- November 18, 2009
- Citation
- 0943897
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