The Veteran's claims for service connection for a right shoulder injury and head condition residuals have been denied as new and material evidence has not been received to reopen the claims.,The Veteran's claim for an initial compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, hypertension as a result of exposure to herbicides, diabetes as a result of exposure to herbicides, and neuropathy of the right upper extremity, left lower extremity, and right lower extremity, as secondary to diabetes have been remanded.
The deciding factor: The evidence received since the September 2011 rating decision does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claims for service connection for a right shoulder injury or head condition residuals.,Further development is needed to determine if the Veteran's service on the U.S.S. Coral Sea qualifies him for presumptive service connection under Procopio v. Wilkie, 913 F.3d 1371 (Fed. Cir. 2019).
- Claimed conditions
- right shoulder injury, head condition residuals
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 17, 2019
- Citation
- 19138597
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