The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for sleep disturbances, finding that his condition is proximately due to his service-connected shoulder disability. The extent of this problem is not before the Board.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran's current sleep disturbance is proximately due to his service-connected shoulder disability and resolved all doubt in favor of the Veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- sleep disturbances, shoulder disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 28, 2024
- Citation
- A24027742
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for lumbar spine, left knee, right knee, right wrist, headaches, and sleep disturbances as there is no persuasive evidence of current disabilities during the appeal period.
- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for various conditions, including sinusitis, right and left upper extremity radiculopathy, sleep disturbances, a right knee disability, osteoarthritis of the lumbar spine, allergic rhinitis, and patellofemoral syndrome with degenerative arthritis in the left knee. The Board found that there was insufficient evidence to support these claims.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's motion to revise June 2009 and July 2012 rating decisions that denied service connection for sleep disturbances, on the grounds of clear and unmistakable error (CUE), is remanded. The AOJ must adjudicate whether a claim of service connection for sleep apnea was reasonably raised at the time of the June 2009 and July 2012 rating decisions.
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the appeals for all issues related to service connection and rating decisions from February 2017, May 2019, and November 2019 due to untimely Notice of Disagreement filings.
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