The Board has granted service connection for osteoarthrosis of the left knee, finding that the Veteran's symptoms are continuous since service and meeting the requirements for presumptive service connection due to arthritis.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran's symptoms were continuous since service and met the requirements for presumptive service connection based on continuity of symptomatology after service separation.
- Claimed conditions
- osteoarthrosis of the left knee
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 22, 2019
- Citation
- 19179952
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Decisions by this judge: 2,200 · Granted: 43% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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