The veteran's additional disability, a burst fracture of T3 and spinal cord injury, was caused by VA treatment during his 1999 hospitalization. The event was not reasonably foreseeable.
The deciding factor: VA treatment resulted in an unforeseeable event that caused the veteran's additional disability.
- Claimed conditions
- burst fracture of T3, spinal cord injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 31, 2006
- Citation
- 0622772
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