The Veteran's appeals for increased ratings and earlier effective dates have been dismissed due to his withdrawal of the appeals.
The deciding factor: The Veteran withdrew all issues on appeal before the Board could make a decision.
- Claimed conditions
- right hip replacement, scar residuals of right hip
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 21, 2019
- Citation
- 19165054
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the matter of entitlement to service connection for right hip replacement due to a need for an addendum medical opinion addressing aggravation.
- Granted
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- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for scars resulting from surgery for malignant melanoma incurred during active duty service and remanded the other claims for further development.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for chronic kidney disease as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected leukemia and remanded several other claims for further development.
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