The Board granted the request to readjudicate the claim of service connection for arthritis of the left wrist and denied it for the right wrist.
The deciding factor: New evidence was found relevant to the left wrist, but not the right wrist, allowing a re-evaluation of the former while denying the latter.
- Claimed conditions
- arthritis of the left wrist, arthritis of the right wrist
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 6, 2025
- Citation
- A25020618
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 828 · Granted: 42% (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 partial grant means some issues were granted while others were denied or remanded — common in multi-issue claims. Look at which issues went which way, and how each was argued.
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