The Board has determined that the evidence submitted since the February 1962 decision is new but not material, and therefore, it is insufficient to reopen the claim of entitlement to service connection for meningitis.
The deciding factor: The new evidence does not provide any information regarding current residuals of the veteran's diagnosed meningitis during service.
- Claimed conditions
- meningitis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 12, 2004
- Citation
- 0400886
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Decisions by this judge: 1,515 · Granted: 20% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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