The Board dismissed the veteran's claims for service connection for left and right upper extremity paralysis, specially adapted housing, special home adaptation, and automobile or other conveyance and adaptive equipment due to a duplicative appeal.
The deciding factor: The issues are currently on appeal under a separate docket number and awaiting a decision.
- Claimed conditions
- left upper extremity paralysis, right upper extremity paralysis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 2, 2025
- Citation
- A25000149
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,726 · Granted: 19% (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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 for right upper extremity paralysis and spastic hemiparesis of the right lower extremity, finding that these additional disabilities were not reasonably foreseeable at the time of a February 2008 surgery.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for various neurological conditions, as additional medical evidence is needed to determine if these conditions are related to or aggravated by the Veteran's service-connected lumbar spine disability.
- Partly granted
The veteran was granted some increased ratings and effective dates for various conditions, but denied others.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's disabilities, including cervical stenosis with herniated discs, right upper extremity paralysis, left upper extremity weakness, loss of bowel function, loss of bladder function, left leg above-the-knee amputation, and loss of use of right lower extremity, were caused by carelessness or negligence on the part of VA. As a result, the Veteran is entitled to compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151.
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