The Board has granted service connection for left leg thrombophlebitis and assigned a 60 percent evaluation effective from April 5, 2013. The Veteran's claim was reopened on April 1, 2011, and the effective date is set at April 1, 2011.
The deciding factor: The effective date of the grant of service connection for left leg thrombophlebitis is set at April 1, 2011, as this was the date VA received an informal claim from the Veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- left leg thrombophlebitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- July 3, 2018
- Citation
- 18115478
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has not made a decision on the TDIU claim and remands it due to non-compliance with previous remand directives.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to scheduling issues with VA examinations and for extraschedular consideration of a TDIU.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including left leg thrombophlebitis, right shoulder rotator cuff syndrome, and knee conditions, have rendered him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation. The Board has granted the TDIU based on this finding.
- Granted
The Veteran's left leg thrombophlebitis is granted as secondary to her service-connected Factor V Leiden with activated Protein C resistance.,A disability rating of 100 percent for the residuals of transient ischemic attacks involving the left lower extremity as secondary to Factor V Leiden with activated Protein C resistance was granted from February 22, 2001.
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