The Board found that the July 1973 decision did not commit CUE in denying service connection for paranoid schizophrenia, and the October 1991 decision did not commit CUE in failing to assign an earlier effective date. The issues are now considered as a whole.
The deciding factor: Both decisions were final due to lack of appeal within one year from notification letters.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a left patella fracture, laceration scar on the left forehead, residuals of a fracture of the 5th metacarpal of the right hand
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 18, 2010
- Citation
- 1006078
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What this means for you
A partial grant means some issues were granted while others were denied or remanded — common in multi-issue claims. Look at which issues went which way, and how each was argued.
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