The Board found that the submitted evidence was not new and material to reopen the claim of service connection for passive aggressive personality disorder.
The deciding factor: The newly received evidence did not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim, as it did not associate the Veteran's passive aggressive personality disorder with event or incident of military service.
- Claimed conditions
- Passive Aggressive Personality Disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 15, 2009
- Citation
- 0934589
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