The Board has granted the Veteran's petition to reopen his claim for service connection of bilateral lower extremity varicose veins and found that new evidence supports a finding that he developed this condition during active service. The Board also found that there is at least equipoise evidence in favor of the Veteran's claim, thus granting service connection.
The deciding factor: The Veteran provided competent lay testimony describing symptoms of varicose veins during service which were later diagnosed and documented in medical records post-service. This evidence raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating his claim for service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral lower extremity varicose veins
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 10, 2019
- Citation
- 19144659
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,156 · Granted: 29% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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.
What you can do next
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to an error in providing notice of a hearing option. The Veteran and his representative will be notified about their right to participate in a pre-decisional AOJ hearing.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the Veteran's claims for neck pain with upper extremity symptoms, low back pain with lower extremity symptoms, bilateral knee pain, bilateral shoulder pain, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), and bilateral lower extremity varicose veins due to a failure of VA to provide examinations as requested by the Veteran.
- Dismissed
The appeal for entitlement to service connection for bilateral lower extremity varicose veins was dismissed due to an improper concurrent election under the Appeals Modernization Act.
- Partly granted
The Board denied a compensable initial rating for hypertension and remanded the claims for service connection for cervical spine disorder, right carpal tunnel disorder, left carpal tunnel disorder, bilateral upper extremity varicose veins, and bilateral lower extremity varicose veins.
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