The Veteran's claim for service connection for a neck disability has been reopened and granted.,Service connection is also granted for IBS, but denied. The Veteran does not have a current diagnosis of IBS that is secondarily related to his service-connected GERD.
The deciding factor: The Board found the evidence in equipoise as to whether the neck disability was caused by service and granted service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- neck disability, IBS, ulcer
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 26, 2018
- Citation
- 18121480
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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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