The Board has denied the veteran's claims for service connection for acquired psychiatric disorders, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C. The decision found that new evidence did not establish a new diagnosis or provide material information to substantiate the claim.
The deciding factor: New evidence was submitted but it did not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claims of service connection for acquired psychiatric disorders, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C. The diagnoses were either already established at the time of the previous denial or related to substance abuse which is not considered a service-connected condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Passive-aggressive personality disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 5, 2008
- Citation
- 0804016
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