The Board has granted service connection for a right hip disability, finding that the evidence is in equipoise and thus granting the benefit of the doubt to the Veteran.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence is in relative equipoise regarding whether the current right hip disability is proximately due or the result of the service-connected disabilities, including the right ankle fracture with degenerative joint disease, a right great toe disability, a left knee disability, a left hip disability, and back disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- right hip degenerative joint disease, s/p total hip replacement, right ankle fracture with degenerative joint disease, right great toe disability, left knee disability, left hip disability, back disabilities
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- November 19, 2019
- Citation
- 19186266
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.
What you can do next
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