The Veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of a brown recluse spider bite, including nerve and muscle disability, is granted. The left posterior leg scar has been rated at 10 percent since the initial grant of service connection.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on new evidence that reopened the previously denied claim.
- Claimed conditions
- left posterior leg scar, muscle spasms in the left thigh
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 23, 2018
- Citation
- 18104928
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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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