Your appeal for service connection for a hiatal hernia with reflux has been dismissed because you withdrew it by submitting a new claim.
The deciding factor: The Veteran withdrew the legacy appeal by submitting an August 2020 supplemental claim following the July 2020 Supplemental Statement of the Case (SSOC).
- Claimed conditions
- hiatal hernia with reflux
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 9, 2021
- Citation
- 21013556
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
The Veteran's cause of death was not service-connected, and his DIC benefits claim under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 was denied.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed all issues on appeal due to the Veteran's withdrawal of his appeal.
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