The Veteran's claim for service connection for bilateral femoral nerve radiculopathy was granted with an effective date of March 18, 1992. The initial disability rating for disc disruption was denied.
The deciding factor: The Board resolved reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran by implying a claim for bilateral femoral nerve radiculopathy within his initial back condition claim and found that new evidence warranted reconsideration of the service connection claim, leading to an earlier effective date. For the disability rating, the evidence did not support a higher rating based on the severity of the disc disruption.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral femoral nerve radiculopathy, disc disruption
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- October 7, 2025
- Citation
- A25086636
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,017 · Granted: 36% (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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