The Board denied service connection for a right shoulder disorder and the claim to reopen the back disorder was granted based on new evidence.
The deciding factor: New medical evidence established that the veteran's current back disorders are related to his in-service injury, meeting the secondary service connection criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Shoulder Disorder, Back Disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 23, 2001
- Citation
- 0125131
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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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