The Board granted service connection for chronic right and left hip strains, finding that these disabilities arose from the Veteran's active duty service.
The deciding factor: Service connection was granted based on a private medical opinion that linked the Veteran's bilateral hip disabilities to his active duty service, with no evidence against the claims.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic left hip strain, chronic right hip strain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- February 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25016017
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 899 · Granted: 45% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Granted
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