The Veteran withdrew her appeals for increased ratings and service connection for lumbosacral strain with bilateral sacra stress injury, right femur stress fracture with hip contusion, left hip contusion, residuals of a traumatic brain injury, vestibular disorder, and left knee disorder.
The deciding factor: The Veteran withdrew her appeal in writing.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral strain with bilateral sacra stress injury, right femur stress fracture with hip contusion, left hip contusion
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 22, 2024
- Citation
- A24067584
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,432 · Granted: 29% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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 has granted service connection for a groin condition. The remaining issues of service connection for left hip contusion, left foot disability, low back injury, and acquired psychiatric disability are remanded.
- Granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for a left hip disorder was reopened, and he is now rated at 40 percent for lumbar spine arthritis with DDD and IVDS from June 11, 2014 to September 4, 2018. He also received separate ratings for right and left lower extremity radiculopathy of both the femoral and sciatic nerves.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to the need for a more recent VA examination of his service-connected left hip disability.
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