The Veteran's appeal is dismissed due to withdrawal of the claim for an earlier effective date for left shoulder degenerative joint disease. The claim for reopening a left knee disability is granted, and the case is remanded for further examination and opinion regarding his bilateral hamstring tendonitis, left foot strain, and bilateral knee disabilities.
The deciding factor: The Veteran withdrew his appeal of the issue of entitlement to an effective date earlier than November 3, 2011, for the grant of service connection for left shoulder degenerative joint disease. The claim for reopening a left knee disability is granted due to new evidence submitted since the previous denial.
- Claimed conditions
- left shoulder degenerative joint disease of the AC joint, left knee disability, right hamstring tendonitis, left foot strain of fifth metatarsophalangeal joint foot injury, left knee disability (undiagnosed illness and/or medically unexplained chronic multisymptom illness), right knee disability (undiagnosed illness and/or medically unexplained chronic multisymptom illness)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 15, 2019
- Citation
- 19178346
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.
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