The Board denied service connection for partial loss of eyesight and granted service connection for peripheral vestibular disorder, which is a secondary condition to the Veteran's service-connected traumatic brain injury (TBI).
The deciding factor: There was no evidence linking the claimed eye disability or the current vestibular disorder to active service.
- Claimed conditions
- Partial loss of eyesight, Peripheral vestibular disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 16, 2018
- Citation
- 18127113
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
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