The Veteran's hepatitis A has been evaluated as chronic liver disease without cirrhosis and assigned an initial 10 percent rating. The symptoms do not meet the criteria for a higher evaluation.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's hepatitis A does not result in daily fatigue, malaise, or anorexia requiring dietary restriction or continuous medication, nor does it cause incapacitating episodes with total duration of at least two weeks but less than four weeks during the past 12-month period.
- Claimed conditions
- Hepatitis A
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 11, 2012
- Citation
- 1217151
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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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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to an error in providing notice of a pre-decisional hearing. The Veteran's claim for service connection for hepatitis A will be reconsidered by the AOJ with instructions to provide such notice.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection and rating appeals to cure pre-decisional duty-to-assist errors.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss, migraines, and hepatitis C. The claims for hepatitis B and A were also granted, but the claim for a right shoulder condition and a skin condition was remanded.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the Veteran's appeal for service connection for Hepatitis A, obstructive sleep apnea, posttraumatic stress disorder, bilateral hearing loss, and tinnitus because the VA Form 10182 was not filed on time.
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