The Board has reopened the claim of service connection for PTSD due to new and material evidence submitted by the veteran.,The claim of service connection for a lung condition as secondary to asbestos exposure is not well grounded.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence was presented in support of the PTSD claim, but the lung condition claim lacks sufficient supporting evidence.
- Claimed conditions
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Lung Condition
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 12, 2000
- Citation
- 0018215
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What this means for you
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- Remanded (sent back)
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