The Board denied the Veteran's claim to reopen her service connection for Factor V Leiden and chronic coagulopathy, finding that new evidence did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claims.
The deciding factor: The new evidence was cumulative or did not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim
- Claimed conditions
- Factor V Leiden, chronic coagulopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 26, 2019
- Citation
- 19166112
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