The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for service connection of recurrent renal calculi was granted. The denial of compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 for the abdominal hernia is based on a finding that it was not caused by VA care, but rather due to the Veteran's obesity and use of narcotics.,The claim for reopening service connection for papillary carcinoma of the thyroid was granted, as new evidence had been submitted.
The deciding factor: The abdominal hernia occurred after surgery at a VA facility, but it is not considered to be caused by VA care due to the Veteran's obesity and use of narcotics. The event was reasonably foreseeable.,New evidence has been submitted that raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim for service connection of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid.
- Claimed conditions
- recurrent renal calculi, papillary carcinoma of the thyroid, incisional hernia
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 3, 2018
- Citation
- 1819636
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