The claim for service connection of a right knee disability was denied. The claim for service connection of an acquired psychiatric disorder (generalized anxiety disorder, depressive disorder, and panic disorder) is granted as secondary to tinnitus and bilateral hearing loss. The claim for Meniere's syndrome is remanded.
The deciding factor: The decision on the right knee disability claim is mixed due to some issues being granted while others are denied. For the psychiatric disorders, service connection was granted as secondary to the service-connected tinnitus and bilateral hearing loss. The Meniere's syndrome claim requires further examination to determine its etiology.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, depressive disorder, panic disorder, Meniere's disease (vertigo)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 15, 2018
- Citation
- 18111348
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What this means for you
A partial grant means some issues were granted while others were denied or remanded — common in multi-issue claims. Look at which issues went which way, and how each was argued.
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