The Board in February 1950 denied a higher rating for the right shoulder and assigned a 10 percent rating for the left shoulder scar, effective October 6, 1949. The Veteran's representative argues that the correct application of the existing law would have resulted in a separate compensable rating for residual scarring from the gunshot wound of the right shoulder and an earlier effective date for the award of a separate 10 percent rating for a left shoulder scar as a residual of the gunshot wound.
The deciding factor: The Board considered the correct facts and applied the existing law, resulting in a decision that would have been manifestly different if it had assigned a compensable rating for scarring from the right shoulder or an earlier effective date for the left shoulder scar.
- Claimed conditions
- Residuals of a gunshot wound of the right shoulder, Left shoulder scar, a residual of the gunshot wound
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- June 21, 2010
- Citation
- 1023025
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