The Veteran's appeals for service connection for various conditions have been dismissed. The Board has remanded several issues including GERD, migraine headaches, tinnitus, and TDIU.
The deciding factor: The Veteran withdrew his appeals for sleep apnea, kidney disability, and right knee skin cancer during the hearing. Service connection was denied for left shoulder, right shoulder, right hand, neck, left hip, right hip, left knee, right knee, back pain with sciatica, and hypertension.
- Claimed conditions
- Sleep Apnea, Kidney Disability, Right Knee Skin Cancer, Left Shoulder Disability, Right Shoulder Disability, Psychiatric Disability, Vertigo, Left Hand Disability, Right Hand Disability, Neck Disability, Left Hip Disability, Right Hip Disability, Left Knee Disability, Right Knee Disability, Back Pain with Sciatica, Hypertension
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 21, 2024
- Citation
- A24077124
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea, left knee disability, and right knee disability. The claims for urinary frequency disability and residuals of a cholecystectomy were denied.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for diabetes mellitus type II and hypertension, to include as secondary to left orchiectomy, for further development in accordance with the PACT Act.
- Partly granted
The Board granted readjudication of previously denied claims for service connection for PTSD and COPD, while remanding other issues including entitlement to service connection for an eye disorder, hypertension, tinnitus, a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss, TDIU, and an initial rating for PTSD.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 70% rating for PTSD from November 25, 2015 to August 12, 2024 and a 40% rating for the right shoulder disability. It also granted 10% ratings for both feet and 20% ratings for knee patellofemoral pain syndromes.
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