The Veteran's service-connected low back disabilities are granted at a 60 percent evaluation effective April 21, 2012. Separate evaluations of 20 percent for left and right ankle strains are also granted.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on in-service incurrence and continuity of symptoms since separation from service.
- Claimed conditions
- Right great toe, Traumatic arthritis of the interphalangeal joint of the toe, Hallux valgus deviation, Digital nerve causalgia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- March 22, 2019
- Citation
- 19121200
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Decisions by this judge: 2,316 · Granted: 43% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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Related decisions
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- Denied
The Veteran's claim for compensation under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 was denied because there is no evidence showing that the right great toe disability resulted from VA negligence or fault.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran seeks compensation benefits for additional disability of his right great toe resulting from a November 18, 2005 surgery. The case is being remanded to obtain records and provide the Veteran with an examination.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for a temporary total rating pursuant to 38 C.F.R. § 4.30 for periods of convalescence following hospitalizations in December 1992 and February 1995, finding that the increase in disability did not occur within one year prior to the date of receipt of his claim.
- 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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