The Board denied the veteran's application to reopen his claim for service connection for chronic brain syndrome secondary to cerebral and intracranial trauma, finding that new evidence did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence was cumulative and did not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic brain syndrome, cerebral and intracranial trauma
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 13, 2008
- Citation
- 0808544
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- Granted
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