The Veteran requested to withdraw the appeal concerning a proposal to sever service connection for pulmonary nodule. The Board dismissed the appeal as per the Veteran's request.
The deciding factor: The Veteran withdrew the appeal through their private attorney's correspondence requesting to dismiss the appeal.
- Claimed conditions
- pulmonary nodule
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 10, 2026
- Citation
- A26021461
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to duty-to-assist errors and the need for a new opinion regarding the etiology of the Veteran's lung conditions.
- Dismissed
Your appeals for service connection and increased rating were not timely filed, so your attempts to appeal have been dismissed.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an earlier effective date of March 7, 2019, for the grant of service connection for pulmonary nodule and chronic cough but denied a compensable disability rating for the same condition. The claim for service connection for lesions on lungs was remanded.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for a compensable rating for chronic lymphocytic leukemia with normocytic anemia, a 10 percent rating under 38 C.F.R. § 3.324 for multiple noncompensable service-connected disabilities, and initial ratings for left knee strain and pulmonary nodule.
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