The Board has reopened the Veteran's claims of entitlement to service connection for hepatitis and PTSD, but denied all other issues on appeal.,A new rating decision is needed to assign a disability rating for keratosis punctata of the bilateral hands.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence was received for both hepatitis and PTSD, while no such evidence was received for the other claims.
- Claimed conditions
- Hepatitis, Acquired Psychiatric Disability (PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 6, 2015
- Citation
- 1500265
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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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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death, finding that his alcohol-related causes of death were etiologically linked to a service-connected disability.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for a lumbar spine disability and denied an initial compensable rating for right foot hammer toes, while remanding the claim for service connection for hepatitis.
- Denied
The Board denied the claims for service connection for infertility, left and right knee disabilities, and an acquired psychiatric disability, to include PTSD, as there was not new and relevant evidence submitted within a valid evidentiary window.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for bilateral hearing loss, back pain, left thumb disability, and PTSD due to missing service treatment records.
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