The Board has granted service connection for residuals of a coccyx fracture and remanded the TDIU claim.
The deciding factor: The evidence is at least in equipoise as to whether the Veteran sustained a coccyx fracture during service, resolving all doubt in favor of the Veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a coccyx fracture
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- August 15, 2019
- Citation
- A19000918
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,374 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including updated VA examinations to assess the current severity of his service-connected disabilities and obtain treatment records.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims are being remanded for additional development, including obtaining updated VA treatment records and scheduling a medical examination to address her coccyx injury and pelvic pain conditions.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for increased ratings and initial evaluations are being remanded due to the need for additional development, including VA examinations and VCAA notice.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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