The Board denied the Veteran's motion to revise or reverse the March 1999 RO decision on service connection for bladder disorder and denied an effective date prior to January 20, 2006. The Board found no clear and unmistakable error in either decision.
The deciding factor: The Board determined that there was no CUE in the March 1999 rating decision as it addressed the correct issue of service connection for urethritis (urinary tract problem) and did not overlook any relevant evidence, including STRs. The Board also found that the March 2017 decision correctly applied the laws and had the correct facts at the time.
- Claimed conditions
- Bladder disorder, Urethritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 23, 2019
- Citation
- 19131350
What this means for you
A denial is a starting point, not the end of the road. You can see why this claim fell short — and, if you are still inside the one-year window, the appeal lanes that may remain open to you.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for a bladder disorder as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for further evidentiary development and to obtain additional medical opinions.
- Dismissed
The appeals for service connection for a bladder disorder, CFS, foot pain, and IBS were dismissed as untimely. The appeals for GERD, migraine headaches, thorax pain, and right knee disorder were remanded to correct duty to assist errors.
- Denied
The Veteran's bladder disorder with residual scar is not service-connected under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 because the additional disability was a reasonably foreseeable complication of his uroscopy and stone removal, for which he provided informed consent.
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