The Board granted revisions of the October 2001 rating decision, which failed to explicitly adjudicate and award special monthly compensation (SMC) based on loss of use of the bilateral lower extremities as a result of resection of cervical spine cavernoma with neurogenic bladder, and SMC at the R1 level, on the basis of clear and unmistakable error (CUE).
The deciding factor: The October 2001 rating decision contained factual and legal errors in implicitly denying entitlement to SMC based on loss of use of the bilateral lower extremities and SMC at the R1 level; but for these errors, the outcome would have been manifestly different.
- Claimed conditions
- cervical spine disability with left sided weakness and loss of bladder control, left lower extremity weakness secondary to cervical spine disability
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- November 10, 2025
- Citation
- A25097415
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Decisions by this judge: 793 · Granted: 28% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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