The Board denied the Veteran's request to reopen his claim for service connection of DDD lumbar spine, finding that no new and material evidence had been received since the August 1999 rating decision.
The deciding factor: The evidence submitted did not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim for service connection for DDD lumbar spine.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD) lumbar spine
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 26, 2011
- Citation
- 1136200
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