The Board has reopened the veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of spinal meningitis due to new and material evidence submitted since the 1996 RO decision. The case is remanded for further development, including obtaining hospital records from 1982 and a VA examination.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence has been submitted that supports reopening the claim for service connection for residuals of spinal meningitis.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of spinal meningitis, chronic low back pain
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 24, 2001
- Citation
- 0111871
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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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- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and remanded the claims for other conditions due to insufficient evidence.
- Dismissed
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