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

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