Granted
The Veteran's right knee disability is granted service connection as secondary to the service-connected left knee disability.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran's right knee condition was caused by her service-connected left knee disability, based on a private medical opinion and the benefit-of-the-doubt doctrine.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 13, 2025
- Citation
- A25002573
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