The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability and increased rating for left knee enthesophyte, status post crush injury. The TDIU claim was also denied.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not support granting service connection or increasing the rating for either condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disability (to include depression), Left knee enthesophyte, status post crush injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- August 5, 2015
- Citation
- 1533329
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- Granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include depression as secondary to his service-connected disabilities, has been granted. The Veteran is also granted a rating in excess of 20 percent prior to July 25, 2017 and in excess of 30 percent from July 25, 2017 and thereafter for a cervical spine disability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection due to insufficient medical opinions and new evidence. The Veteran's conditions include hypertension, gout of the feet, anemia, splenomegaly, onychomycosis, psychiatric disability, left shoulder condition, right thumb disability, left knee disability, right foot plantar fasciitis, and a sebaceous cyst.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the veteran does not meet the criteria for service connection for a right knee disability, bilateral foot disability, acquired psychiatric disability (to include depression), or sleep disorder.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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