The Board has granted service connection for residuals of a head injury and assigned a 20% disability rating, effective from the date of the decision.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the veteran's current disabilities are secondary to his September 15, 1990 head injury.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a head injury, degenerative disc disease of cervical spine, degenerative disc disease of lumbar spine, disability of neck, disability of shoulder, disability of hand, disability of leg
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- November 7, 2006
- Citation
- 0634427
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Decisions by this judge: 1,500 · Granted: 17% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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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- Remanded (sent back)
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