The Board has granted an effective date of April 3, 2003 for the award of service connection for CAD based on a liberalizing law that added ischemic heart disease to the list of conditions presumptively due to exposure to herbicides. The Veteran filed a claim for PTSD which was granted in July 2003 and an NOD with respect to this decision was received within one year, despite being misfiled at the Board.
The deciding factor: The Board applied equitable tolling principles to accept the Veteran's misfiled Notice of Disagreement (NOD) as timely filed, given that it was received by VA between May 3, 1989 and August 31, 2010 (the effective date of the presumption of service connection for ischemic heart disease).
- Claimed conditions
- CAD
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- January 12, 2017
- Citation
- 1700983
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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.
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