The Board has denied service connection for a left hip condition and a left lower leg condition, finding that there is no evidence of a current disability related to service.
The deciding factor: There was no in-service diagnosis or treatment for the claimed conditions, and any post-service diagnoses are not linked to service or a service-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Arthritis of the left hip, Left lower leg condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 20, 2019
- Citation
- 19163753
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What this means for you
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