The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for a hysterical conversion reaction, adjustment disorder, and right knee disorder. The evidence submitted did not provide new and material information to reopen any of these claims.
The deciding factor: The provided evidence was either cumulative or did not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- right side weakness, loss of control
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 27, 2006
- Citation
- 0633325
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,013 · Granted: 17% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to non-compliance with previous directives and needs further medical opinion regarding the relationship between the Veteran's 2001 stroke and his in-service heart condition.
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