The Board has reopened the veteran's claim for service connection due to new and material evidence, including medical records of his current eye conditions. The Board is now required to determine if it is at least as likely as not that the veteran's current bilateral eye disability is related to his active duty service.
The deciding factor: The April 1949 rating decision denied service connection for chronic bilateral conjunctivitis due to lack of evidence, and new evidence received since then supports reopening the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral eye disability
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 28, 2003
- Citation
- 0333324
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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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- Denied
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