The Board has reopened the claims for service connection for a low back disorder and right hip bursitis based on new and material evidence, but these claims must be readjudicated on the underlying merits.
The deciding factor: New medical evidence links the Veteran's current disabilities to her in-service motor vehicle accident, necessitating further development before a final decision can be made.
- Claimed conditions
- Low back disorder (degenerative joint disease at L5-S1), Right hip bursitis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 20, 2009
- Citation
- 0906306
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,669 · Granted: 23% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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