The Veteran's claim for compensation under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 was denied because the additional disability (persistent pain and numbness in the left foot) is not considered to be caused by VA treatment, and there is no evidence of carelessness, negligence, lack of proper skill, error in judgment, or similar instance of fault on the part of VA.
The deciding factor: The proximate cause of the additional disability was deemed to be an event reasonably foreseeable (the recurrence of the fibroma) rather than due to VA's carelessness, negligence, or other fault.
- Claimed conditions
- left plantar fibroma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 16, 2015
- Citation
- 1548120
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