The Board has granted the veteran's claim for service connection for a lower back disorder with degenerative joint disease of the left hip, finding that the evidence supports his claim and granting him the benefit of the doubt.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the veteran's current symptoms are consistent with an in-service fall from a tower, which is considered sufficient to establish service connection under direct service connection criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- lower back disorder, degenerative joint disease of the left hip
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 2, 2006
- Citation
- 0630934
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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.
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