The veteran was granted reimbursement for unauthorized medical expenses incurred on September 16, 2004 at William Newton Memorial Hospital due to left flank pain.
The deciding factor: A prudent layperson could have reasonably expected that delay in seeking immediate medical attention would have been hazardous to life or health given the acute nature of the veteran's condition and the advice from an emergency medical technician.
- Claimed conditions
- left flank pain
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 16, 2009
- Citation
- 0901987
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.
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