The Board has reopened the Veteran's claims for service connection for a right leg disability and nerve damage to the right hand, but the merits of these claims are being remanded due to the need for additional development.
The deciding factor: New evidence was received that raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the Veteran's claims of entitlement to service connection for his right leg condition and nerve damage to the right hand.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Leg Disability, Nerve Damage to Right Hand
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 21, 2017
- Citation
- 1741081
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