The Board has reopened the veteran's claim for service connection for a right leg disorder due to new evidence submitted since the 1989 denial. However, there is no competent medical evidence linking the current condition to service.
The deciding factor: No competent medical evidence established a nexus between the current right leg disorder and service.
- Claimed conditions
- right leg disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 24, 2000
- Citation
- 0001921
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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