The Board granted an effective date of March 13, 2003, for the award of service connection for bilateral elbow and left shoulder disabilities.
The deciding factor: The appeal was successfully perfected in April 2008, and the June 2011 rating decision granted the claim as secondary to a service-connected disability effective March 16, 2011. The earliest date of receipt of an informal claim for left shoulder disability is March 11, 2004.
- Claimed conditions
- radial head fracture of the right elbow, fracture of the left elbow, injury to the left shoulder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 28, 2025
- Citation
- 25013374
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 622 · Granted: 17% (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.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for TDIU as his service-connected disabilities do not render him unable to obtain and/or secure substantially gainful employment.
- Denied
The Veteran's claim for an increased rating for his left elbow disability was denied as the current level of disability does not warrant a higher rating.
- Remanded (sent back)
The veteran's claim for an increased evaluation of his left elbow fracture is being remanded due to the need to obtain VA treatment records and arrange for a VA examination.
- Dismissed
The veteran's appeal has been dismissed due to his death, and the Board does not have jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits of this claim.
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