The Board has reopened the veteran's claim of service connection for a low back disorder, to include lumbosacral arthritis. The case is remanded for further development and examination.
The deciding factor: New evidence submitted by the veteran raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim for service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral arthritis, low back pain
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 11, 2004
- Citation
- 0403912
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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
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