The Board has reopened the claim for service connection for bursitis of the bilateral shoulders and is granting it, based on new evidence that relates to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim.
The deciding factor: New medical records provided a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim by suggesting a connection between current symptoms of bursitis and service.
- Claimed conditions
- bursitis of the bilateral shoulders
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 25, 2012
- Citation
- 1215021
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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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