The Board denied the appellant's claims to reopen the issues of entitlement to service connection for residuals of a back injury, neck injury, right hip injury, and left hip injury as new and material evidence was not submitted.
The deciding factor: The evidence submitted since the April 1998 rating decision did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claims for service connection for the appellant's claimed conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Residuals of a back injury, Residuals of a neck injury, Residuals of a right hip injury, Residuals of a left hip injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 26, 2009
- Citation
- 0907297
What this means for you
A denial is a starting point, not the end of the road. You can see why this claim fell short — and, if you are still inside the one-year window, the appeal lanes that may remain open to you.
What you can do next
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