The Board has granted the Veteran's earlier effective date claim for a 10% evaluation for service-connected laceration scar of the left hand, finding clear and unmistakable error in the December 1972 rating decision that assigned a noncompensable initial evaluation.
The deciding factor: The evidence at the time of the December 1972 rating decision clearly established that the Veteran's left hand residual scar was superficial, tender, and painful on objective demonstration, warranting application of DC 4.118, which assigns a 10% evaluation for 'scars, superficial, tender and painful on objective demonstration.'
- Claimed conditions
- laceration scar of the left hand
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- December 7, 2023
- Citation
- A23034971
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