Your claim for service connection for right lower extremity meralgia paresthetica is dismissed because the RO has already granted you service connection for radiculopathy of the femoral and sciatic nerves in an August 2019 rating decision.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's claim was moot as their benefits were already in effect due to a previous grant of service connection for radiculopathy of the femoral and sciatic nerves.
- Claimed conditions
- meralgia paresthetica
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- November 2, 2020
- Citation
- A20016394
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the claims for service connection for bilateral hip osteoarthritis and meralgia paresthetica, finding that there was no evidence to support a direct or secondary relationship between these conditions and the Veteran's active service.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for lumbosacral strain with degenerative disc disease and a bilateral knee strain, while denying service connection for fibromyalgia, an undiagnosed Gulf War illness (UGWI), or a medically unexplained chronic multi-symptom illness (MUCMI).
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's claims for beneficiary travel expenses were denied because they were not submitted within the required 30-day filing deadline, despite a previous suspension of the deadline due to the COVID-19 emergency.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's meralgia paresthetica was previously rated at 20 percent, but the RO reduced this to noncompensable effective September 1, 2019. The Board found that there was no actual improvement in the condition and restored the original rating of 20 percent.
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