The Veteran's claim for service connection for a groin injury is granted. The Board found that the Veteran had a current disability, experienced an in-service event or incurrence of his groin injury, and linked the injury to service.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran’s testimony regarding pain felt during service and any functional loss associated with that pain constituted a disability as per Saunders v. Wilkie (2018).
- Claimed conditions
- Groin injury, Groin pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 27, 2019
- Citation
- 19150421
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Decisions by this judge: 3,217 · Granted: 46% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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