The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been received to reopen the veteran's claims of entitlement to service connection for additional gastrointestinal disability and residuals of a concussion. The veteran is now entitled to these benefits.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence was submitted in support of the veteran's claims, which allowed the Board to consider them again on their merits.
- Claimed conditions
- Additional gastrointestinal disability, Residuals of a concussion
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- January 30, 2003
- Citation
- 0301910
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Decisions by this judge: 1,325 · Granted: 31% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
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- Whole decision: Denied
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- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
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