The veteran's current residuals of hepatitis A and B are related to service.
The deciding factor: It was at least as likely as not that the veteran's hepatitis clinic infection in 1973 while on active duty resulted in his convalescent titers.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of hepatitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 12, 2009
- Citation
- 0901220
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Decisions by this judge: 325 · Granted: 20% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of hepatitis, as there was no evidence that he had any current disability related to his in-service diagnosis of amoebic hepatitis.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a compensable rating for hepatitis to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error and allow the AOJ to conduct additional development.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for residuals of hepatitis due to a need for further development and compliance with previous remand instructions.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for residuals of bilateral tibia and fibula fractures, residuals of hepatitis, and a psychiatric disability due to new evidence submitted by the Veteran. The VA will obtain additional medical records and schedule the Veteran for examinations.
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