The Board denied the reopening of a claim for service connection for left shoulder rotator cuff surgery and bursitis, finding that new and material evidence was not received.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the submitted evidence did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim as it was cumulative and redundant of previous evidence.
- Claimed conditions
- left shoulder rotator cuff surgery, left shoulder bursitis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 9, 2017
- Citation
- 1720868
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