The Board has reopened the veteran's claim of service connection for residuals of left shoulder injury, subluxation of sternoclavicular joint and is granting it. The issue of whether new and material evidence was received to reopen a claim of entitlement to service connection for varicose veins is dismissed.
The deciding factor: The newly submitted medical records established the presence of current disability related to the veteran's in-service injury, meeting one of the criteria for direct service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of left shoulder injury, subluxation of sternoclavicular joint
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 27, 2006
- Citation
- 0636585
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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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