The Veteran's claim for service connection for a left shoulder condition was reopened and granted.,The Veteran's acquired psychiatric condition is also being remanded for further examination.
The deciding factor: New evidence, including medical opinions linking the Veteran's current conditions to his military service, has been submitted and found sufficient to reopen the claims.
- Claimed conditions
- left shoulder superior labral tear from anterior to posterior, acquired psychiatric condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 13, 2019
- Citation
- 19162476
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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.
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- Partly granted
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- Partly granted
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