The appeal for service connection for Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS) is dismissed because the Veteran's PLS diagnosis was clarified as ALS, which has already been granted. Service connection for Bladder Cancer is granted.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's PLS claim was resolved by a grant of service connection for ALS, and there was no pending unadjudicated claim for PLS.
- Claimed conditions
- Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Bladder Cancer
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Gulf War
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- February 22, 2021
- Citation
- 21009377
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's PLS, a variant of ALS, is granted as service connected. The Board found sufficient evidence to presume that PLS developed due to service.
- Granted
The Veteran's hypertension was granted a 10 percent rating for the period prior to August 10, 2022. The Veteran's bladder cancer received a 100 percent rating from March 7, 2018 until September 8, 2018.
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for specially adapted housing or a special home adaptation grant due to lack of permanent and total disability, loss of use of extremities, or other qualifying conditions.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for bladder cancer effective from December 16, 2005, finding that the Veteran had a claim pending since then.
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