The Board denied the Veteran's attempt to reopen her claim for service connection for residuals of hepatitis B, finding that the new evidence did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
The deciding factor: The new evidence was found to be cumulative and did not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of hepatitis B
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 31, 2019
- Citation
- 19159405
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