The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's claimed conditions, including shin splints as secondary to service-connected bilateral pes planus and psychiatric disorders. The effective date of these grants is not specified.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on new evidence that met the criteria for reopening a previously denied claim.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of left mandible trauma, shin splints (to include as secondary to service-connected bilateral pes planus), left wrist disorder, prostate disorder (due to chemical and/or Agent Orange exposure), skin disorder (due to chemical and/or Agent Orange exposure), kidney disorder (due to chemical and/or Agent Orange exposure), psychiatric disorder (to include PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 29, 2011
- Citation
- 1143486
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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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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient evidence regarding the etiology of the Veteran's left wrist disorder and its relationship to service, including his right hand fracture.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for right and left wrist disorders due to a duty to assist error in failing to provide notice of a hearing.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the issues of service connection for tinnitus, low back disorder, right wrist disorder, left wrist disorder, and bilateral hearing loss due to incomplete or inaccurate factual premises in previous opinions.
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed all issues of service connection due to the Veteran's withdrawal of his appeal.
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