The Veteran withdrew his appeals for service connection of all listed conditions.
The deciding factor: Veteran withdrew their appeal for the listed conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- right-foot degenerative arthritis, left-foot degenerative arthritis, right-hip degenerative arthritis, left-hip degenerative arthritis, right-hand degenerative arthritis, left-hand degenerative arthritis, right-shoulder degenerative arthritis, left-shoulder degenerative arthritis, lumbar-spine degenerative arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 28, 2021
- Citation
- 21025641
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
- Denied
The Veteran's claim for an initial disability rating in excess of 10 percent for right-hand index finger post fracture of middle and proximal phalanges and right-hand degenerative arthritis is denied as the maximum schedular rating available for limitation of motion of the index finger, whether with the dominant or nondominant hand, is 10 percent.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for left knee osteoarthritis, instability, and total knee replacement, left knee scar, right-hand degenerative arthritis disability, left-hand osteoarthritis disability, and lumbosacral strain with osteoarthritis of the lumbar spine. The claims for left shoulder disability, higher evaluations for hip disabilities, and TDIU are remanded.
- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for left-hand degenerative arthritis and bilateral idiopathic peripheral autonomic neuropathy, finding that there is no evidence linking these conditions to his time in service.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a right-hand disability, finding that there was no evidence to support a direct or secondary service connection. The Board also found that the preponderance of the evidence did not show that the Veteran’s current degenerative arthritis was related to his in-service right wrist laceration.
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