The Board found that the evidence submitted since the previous denials was not new and material, thus denying the claims to reopen for service connection of bronchial asthma, generalized anxiety disorder, and a back condition.
The deciding factor: The newly submitted evidence did not provide a competent medical link between the claimed in-service conditions and the Veteran's current conditions, failing to raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- bronchial asthma, generalized anxiety disorder, back condition
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 13, 2009
- Citation
- 0905301
Veterans Law Judge
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Granted
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- Dismissed
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