The Veteran's appeals for increased disability ratings for service-connected right and left lower extremity conditions have been dismissed due to the Veteran's death. The Board has no jurisdiction to adjudicate these claims as they are moot.
The deciding factor: The appeal was dismissed due to the Veteran's death, making it impossible to determine the merits of the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Right lower extremity, Left lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 3, 2026
- Citation
- A26018914
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
The Veteran's appeal for compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 for residuals of a September 1996 VA spinal surgery was denied because the evidence did not show additional disability resulting from carelessness, negligence, lack of proper skill, error in judgment, or similar instance of fault on the part of VA.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's increased rating claims for peripheral neuropathy of the sciatic and femoral nerve of the right lower extremity, finding that the evidence did not support a higher than 10 percent evaluation.
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