The Veteran's appeal for earlier effective dates for IVDS, right ankle sprain with laxity, and left ankle sprain with laxity is dismissed as these claims are final due to the grants of service connection in January 2018 and March 2018.,Service connection for OSA is granted based on a private medical opinion linking it to PTSD.
The deciding factor: The effective dates for IVDS, right ankle sprain with laxity, and left ankle sprain with laxity are final as the grants of service connection were already in effect prior to the Veteran's appeal.,The private medical opinion provided sufficient evidence linking OSA to PTSD.
- Claimed conditions
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), IVDS, Right ankle sprain with laxity, Left ankle sprain with laxity
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 23, 2024
- Citation
- A24059659
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
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