Dismissed
The appeal for an effective date prior to November 6, 2014, for the grant of service connection for right thumb flexor tendon laceration is dismissed as a matter of law.
The deciding factor: There can be no freestanding earlier effective date claim due to the finality of the December 2021 AOJ decision's assignment of November 6, 2014, as the effective date for the grant of service connection for the Veteran's right thumb flexor tendon laceration.
- Claimed conditions
- right thumb flexor tendon laceration
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 22, 2025
- Citation
- A25091226
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