The Board has reopened the claim for service connection for seizures and remanded it for further development.
The deciding factor: New evidence submitted by the veteran includes current diagnoses of seizures, raising a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Seizures
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 3, 2006
- Citation
- 0634020
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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
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- Remanded (sent back)
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