The veteran's claim for an effective date prior to January 31, 2001, for service connection of asbestos-related lung disease was denied as there is no evidence showing a claim was filed before that date.
The deciding factor: The claim was not received until January 31, 2001, and the veteran did not provide any prior informal or formal claims for this condition.
- Claimed conditions
- asbestos-related lung disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 29, 2006
- Citation
- 0619086
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Decisions by this judge: 1,325 · Granted: 31% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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- Granted
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- Dismissed
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