The petition to reopen a claim of service connection for post-operative residuals of right hip disorder is granted, and the appeal is granted solely to that extent. Service connection for right knee stress fracture residuals remains denied.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not support a finding that the Veteran's current right hip disorder had onset in active service or is otherwise causally related to an in-service injury or a service-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- right sacrum fracture, post-operative residuals of right hip disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- May 22, 2019
- Citation
- 19139917
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,500 · Granted: 29% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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