This case involves multiple issues, including service connection for gastrointestinal disability which was dismissed due to the Veteran's withdrawal. Service connection for residuals of left hand injury and acquired psychiatric disorder were reopened based on new evidence received since the December 2010 rating decision. However, compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 for an aortic aneurysm caused by a fall at VA Medical Center in April 2011 was denied.,VA found insufficient evidence to support that the Veteran's abdominal aortic aneurysm resulted from his fall at VA, and concluded that it was not proximately caused by VA care.
The deciding factor: The medical opinions indicated no causal link between the Veteran's fall and the development of the abdominal aortic aneurysm.
- Claimed conditions
- Gastrointestinal disability, Left hand injury, Acquired psychiatric disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 29, 2018
- Citation
- 18105739
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for a low back disability and an increased rating for his acquired psychiatric disorder. The Board found that there was no evidence linking the current disabilities to military service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for a determination on whether injuries sustained in a November 2001 incident were in the line of duty. The claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder is also remanded due to its interdependence with the line of duty issue.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to a duty to assist error in failing to obtain private treatment records from the Veteran's treating clinician.
- Granted
The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date of August 13, 2018, for the award of service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder is granted. The Veteran also meets the schedular criteria for entitlement to TDIU prior to June 1, 2023.
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