The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for a digestive disorder, finding that new and material evidence has been received to reopen his previous denied claim. The right knee disorder claim is still pending.
The deciding factor: New medical evidence supports the Veteran's assertion of having had diverticulitis since service, raising a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- digestive disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 14, 2010
- Citation
- 1014114
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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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