The Board denied the Veteran's claims for revision of final rating decisions that awarded service connection and noncompensable evaluations for various right upper extremity disabilities, finding no clear and unmistakable error.
The deciding factor: The decision found no CUE in the original rating determinations based on the evidence at the time they were made.
- Claimed conditions
- shrapnel wound of the right chest with history of pneumothorax, scar of the lateral aspect of the right arm, scar and shell fragment wound of the right hip with retained foreign bodies, scars and shell fragment wound of the right lower extremity with retained foreign bodies
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 12, 2019
- Citation
- 19193480
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