The Board has dismissed the appeals for effective dates and initial ratings related to peripheral neuropathy in both upper extremities due to the Veteran's death during the appeal process.
The deciding factor: The Veteran passed away during the pendency of the appeal, making it impossible to issue a decision on the underlying claim(s).
- Claimed conditions
- peripheral neuropathy right upper extremity, peripheral neuropathy left upper extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 19, 2024
- Citation
- A24047804
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for hypertension, diabetes mellitus type II (DM II), erectile dysfunction, peripheral neuropathy in both upper and lower extremities, hypothyroidism, and dermatitis (claimed as chloracne) based on the Veteran's presumed exposure to herbicide agents during his service in Vietnam.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an effective date of August 10, 2022, for the awards of service connection for peripheral neuropathy in all extremities but denied an earlier effective date for diabetes mellitus and a higher rating for diabetes.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for bipolar I disorder and remanded the claims for nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus type II, chronic kidney disease, and peripheral neuropathy as secondary to the service-connected bipolar I disorder.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for a heart condition, diabetes mellitus type 2, and peripheral neuropathy in all extremities as secondary to the Veteran's now-service-connected diabetes.
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