The Board has granted service connection for depressive disorder, not otherwise specified, as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected left and right hip disabilities. The Veteran is also entitled to a 20 percent disability rating for his lumbar strain myositis.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner opined that the Veteran's depressive disorder was at least as likely as not caused by or a result of his service-connected left and right hip disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Depressive disorder, not otherwise specified
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- February 16, 2010
- Citation
- 1005611
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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.
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