The Board denied service connection for left leg arthritis, back disability, right knee and left knee disabilities but granted a 70 percent rating for the psychiatric disability from January 4, 2019.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not show current diagnoses of the claimed conditions or etiological relationships to service, except for the psychiatric disability where reasonable doubt was resolved in favor of the Veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- left leg arthritis disorder, back disability (degenerative arthritis of the spine and spinal stenosis), right knee arthritis and instability, left knee arthritis and instability
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- May 12, 2025
- Citation
- A25042381
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,200 · Granted: 43% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Remanded (sent back)
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