Your claim for service connection for residuals of right hand fracture has been dismissed because the grant of service connection in a previous decision rendered your current claim moot.
The deciding factor: The April 2019 rating decision granted service connection for multiple conditions related to the right hand, which resolved your original claim for residuals of right hand fracture.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of right hand fracture
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 16, 2020
- Citation
- 20004079
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,548 · Granted: 31% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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
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