The Board has denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a groin disability and his TDIU claim due to service-connected disabilities. The decision is based on the lack of new and material evidence to reopen the previously denied claim, as well as the absence of evidence that raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence does not provide new and material information regarding the unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the service connection claim for groin disability.
- Claimed conditions
- groin disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 26, 2009
- Citation
- 0919581
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- Denied
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