The Board has granted reopening of the claims for service connection for traumatic brain injury, head injuries with scar, and headaches. The claim for left knee disability is denied.,Service connection for traumatic brain injury, head injuries with scar, and headaches have been reopened, but the underlying claims remain denied.
The deciding factor: New evidence has been received that relates to unestablished facts necessary to substantiate the underlying claims of service connection for traumatic brain injury, head injuries with scar, and headaches. The Veteran's reports are not credible regarding continuity of symptomatology since service.,The preponderance of the evidence is against finding a medical nexus between the left knee disability (arthritis and meniscal tear) and an in-service injury.
- Claimed conditions
- Traumatic Brain Injury, Head Injuries with Scar, Left Knee Disability (Arthritis and Meniscal Tear), Headaches
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 17, 2019
- Citation
- 19130198
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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- Dismissed
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Partly granted
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