The Board denied reopening of the claims for cervical injury, jungle rot of the bilateral feet, and residuals of a cold injury to the right foot. The claim for sinus and throat disorder was reopened.
The deciding factor: No new and material evidence was submitted to reopen the claims for cervical injury, jungle rot of the bilateral feet, and residuals of a cold injury to the right foot.
- Claimed conditions
- Cervical injury, Jungle rot (bilateral feet), Residuals of cold injury, right foot, Sinus and throat disorder (variously diagnosed as rhinitis and sinusitis)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 12, 2010
- Citation
- 1017666
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- Granted
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- Partly granted
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