The Board denied the reopening of a claim for service connection for chronic lesions, finding that new and material evidence was not submitted.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence did not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim and failed to provide any new evidence showing that the Veteran's skin lesions were incurred in service or should be afforded an additional rating from that awarded for hydradenitis suppurativa.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic lesions, hydradenitis suppurativa
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- February 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19108454
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,088 · Granted: 33% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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