The Board granted service connection for liposarcoma and its residuals, as well as entitlement to a total disability due to individual unemployability (TDIU), resolving all doubt in the Veteran's favor.
The deciding factor: The weight of the competent evidence is at least in approximate balance that the Veteran's liposarcoma and residuals are related to his in-service toxic exposure and prevented him from securing or maintaining substantially gainful employment since December 31, 2012.
- Claimed conditions
- liposarcoma, angioneurotic edema of the left leg, angioneurotic edema of the right leg, right foot drop, scar, status post-surgery for liposarcoma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- November 19, 2025
- Citation
- 25014141
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,549 · 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 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.
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