The Veteran withdrew his appeals for the issues of entitlement to an initial compensable disability rating for recurrent inguinal hernia status post hernioplasty, entitlement to an initial compensable disability rating for a residual scar of the right hernioplasty, and entitlement to a 10 percent evaluation based on multiple noncompensable service-connected disabilities. The appeal is dismissed.
The deciding factor: The Veteran withdrew his appeals during a February 2017 Board hearing.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative changes of the lumbosacral spine at L5-S1 with spondylolisthesis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 27, 2017
- Citation
- 1729779
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
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