The Board granted service connection for a left shoulder disability and a right shoulder disability, finding that the evidence is at least in equipoise with regards to these conditions being caused by an injury during active service. The ED claim was remanded due to an inadequate medical opinion.
The deciding factor: The competent medical evidence is at least in equipoise regarding the Veteran's bilateral shoulder disabilities being related to his inservice injury while deployed in Vietnam, and that such condition has progressed until the present.
- Claimed conditions
- left shoulder disability, right shoulder disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 30, 2025
- Citation
- A25048134
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,164 · Granted: 31% (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
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