The Board has reopened the claim for service connection due to new and material evidence, but will remand it for further development before readjudicating on the merits.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence was submitted that relates to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim of a central nervous system disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- central nervous system disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 9, 2008
- Citation
- 0818949
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