The Board granted service connection for a low back disorder, finding that the current degenerative changes are likely due to an in-service motor vehicle accident. The claim for anxiety neurosis was reopened but not adjudicated on its merits.
The deciding factor: The credible lay evidence of record establishes that the veteran was injured in a motor vehicle accident in service, and the currently demonstrated low back condition is shown as likely as not to be due to this injury.
- Claimed conditions
- Low back disorder (degenerative changes), Anxiety neurosis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 28, 2009
- Citation
- 0903025
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,599 · Granted: 37% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Remanded (sent back)
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