The Board found that the evidence submitted since the March 1995 decision is not new and material, thus denying the reopening of the claim for service connection for a left hand condition.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim of service connection for a left hand condition.
- Claimed conditions
- left hand condition
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- January 13, 2006
- Citation
- 0601067
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,547 · Granted: 20% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for lumbosacral spine condition, left wrist condition, and left hand condition due to pre-decisional errors in obtaining evidence and developing his claims.
- Whole decision: Denied
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- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for service connection are remanded due to the PACT Act requiring a TERA-specific examination and secondary service connection evaluations.
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