The Board has reopened the claim of service connection for residuals of a back injury and granted service connection, finding that the Veteran's current low back disability is related to his in-service injury.
The deciding factor: The new evidence includes statements from the Veteran, a lay statement by his spouse, and opinions from private physicians linking the current back disability to the in-service incident.
- Claimed conditions
- Osteoarthritis of the spine
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 25, 2011
- Citation
- 1143341
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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.
What you can do next
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