The veteran's request to reopen a previously disallowed claim of entitlement to service connection for a bilateral shoulder disorder was denied as the new evidence did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the underlying claim.
The deciding factor: The newly submitted evidence, while considered new, does not demonstrate an in-service shoulder injury or link the current disability to military service and therefore is not material.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral shoulder disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 14, 2009
- Citation
- 0901490
What this means for you
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What you can do next
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- Dismissed
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