The Board has reopened the veteran's claim of service connection for a bilateral ankle disability and granted it on the merits, finding that the evidence is at least in equipoise regarding an etiological relationship to service.
The deciding factor: The VA physician provided an opinion linking the veteran's current ankle problems to his service injury, establishing equipoise between positive and negative evidence.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral ankle disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 6, 2005
- Citation
- 0515207
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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.
What you can do next
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