The Veteran's appeals for increased evaluation and earlier effective date have been dismissed due to his death.
The deciding factor: The Veteran died during the pendency of his appeal, thus the Board has no jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits of these claims.
- Claimed conditions
- myofascial low back pain with degenerative joint disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 19, 2023
- Citation
- 23003407
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for increased evaluations of his myofascial low back pain with degenerative joint disease are being remanded due to the need for additional development and consideration of new evidence.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for a rating in excess of 10 percent for myofascial low back pain with degenerative joint disease prior to May 26, 2011 is denied.,The Veteran's claim for a rating in excess of 20 percent for myofascial low back pain with degenerative joint disease from May 26, 2011 to February 19, 2019 is denied.,The Veteran's claim for a rating in excess of 20 percent for myofascial low back pain with degenerative joint disease since February 20, 2019 is remanded.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an initial evaluation in excess of 10 percent for his service-connected coronary artery disease, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating based on the severity of his condition.
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