The Board has granted service connection for a lower back disability and denied the Veteran's claims regarding other issues, including reopening of his skin condition claim and increased ratings for PTSD and diabetes mellitus.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on continuity of symptomatology since service. The Veteran's meningioma is not considered presumptively related to herbicide exposure due to it not being listed in the applicable regulation.
- Claimed conditions
- lower back disability, meningioma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 1, 2010
- Citation
- 1004728
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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