The Board is remanding the Veteran's claims for further development, including obtaining VA treatment records and providing an addendum opinion regarding his claim under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151.
The deciding factor: Further development is needed to address whether the proximate cause of the Veteran's additional disabilities was due to carelessness, negligence, or lack of proper skill on the part of VA or an event not reasonably foreseeable.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of shrapnel wounds, left ilioinguinal and left iliohypogastric nerve injuries
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 17, 2015
- Citation
- 1516727
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's claims for service connection of residuals of cold weather injuries of the feet and toes, as well as residuals of shrapnel wounds, are supported by the evidence. The initial disability rating for left knee disability is granted at 20 percent.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's residuals of shrapnel wounds are directly related to his military service and grants service connection for this condition.
- Denied
The Veteran's additional disability of left ilioinguinal and left iliohypogastric nerve injuries following an August 1994 VA left hernia repair was not found to be the result of carelessness, negligence, lack of proper skill, error in judgment, or similar instance of fault on the part of VA. The Board also found that this complication was a rare but foreseeable event.
- Granted
The Veteran's residuals of shrapnel wounds are found to be etiologically related to his military service, and the Board grants service connection for this condition.
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