The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of right hand injury, including carpal boss and neuritis. The decision is based on a finding that the evidence is approximately evenly balanced as to whether the Veteran's current disability resulted from his active duty service.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the evidence was approximately evenly balanced regarding whether the Veteran's right hand injury, including carpal boss and neuritis, was related to his active duty service. As a result of resolving reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran, service connection for residuals of right hand injury is granted.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of right hand injury, carpal boss, neuritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 12, 2024
- Citation
- A24073489
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,604 · Granted: 65% (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 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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for bilateral metatarsalgia and neuritis for a new VA medical opinion.
- Denied
The Board denied the motion for revision, on the basis of clear and unmistakable error, of the October 28, 2016, Rating Decision, which denied service connection for residuals of right hand injury.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for bilateral metatarsalgia and neuritis, finding that there is no evidence to support a link between these conditions and active service.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) as his service-connected disabilities do not preclude him from securing and following a substantially gainful occupation.
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