The claim for service connection for residuals of bilateral knee injury was reopened, but the appeal regarding entitlement to service connection for schizophrenia is remanded.
The deciding factor: The evidence provided new information that relates to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim for service connection for residuals of bilateral knee injury.
- Claimed conditions
- Residuals of bilateral knee injury, Schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 24, 2009
- Citation
- 0910971
What this means for you
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