The Board denied the reopening of a claim for service connection for type II diabetes mellitus secondary to Agent Orange exposure, finding that new and material evidence did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
The deciding factor: The newly received evidence was found to be cumulative and redundant of previous evidence, failing to address any unestablished fact necessary to establish service connection for the claimed disability in a way that raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- type II diabetes mellitus
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 24, 2018
- Citation
- 18144355
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What this means for you
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
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