The Board has reopened the veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for chronic asthmatic bronchitis and remanded it for further development, including a VA examination.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence was presented that raised a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic asthmatic bronchitis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 15, 2006
- Citation
- 0604339
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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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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals for service connection for various conditions have been withdrawn and are dismissed.,Entitlement to a disability rating in excess of 30 percent for chronic asthmatic bronchitis has not been met.
- Denied
The Veteran's claims for service connection have been denied, and the effective date for the current ratings remains April 26, 2016.
- Denied
The Board denied an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for chronic asthmatic bronchitis, finding that there were no prior claims filed before January 17, 2008.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for service connection for chronic asthmatic bronchitis and sleep apnea are remanded due to the need for additional examinations and etiology opinions.
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