The Veteran's service connection claim for residuals of a traumatic brain injury is granted. The claims for increased ratings for degenerative joint disease of the bilateral knees are remanded.
The deciding factor: The evidence established that the Veteran sustained a TBI during his active duty service and has residual symptoms, meeting the criteria for direct service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a traumatic brain injury, degenerative joint disease of the bilateral knees
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 8, 2019
- Citation
- 19184870
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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The veteran's appeal requests for extensions to file an appeal on various rating decisions were denied, and the attempted appeals are dismissed.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the appeal due to an impermissible concurrent election of review lanes.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the claims for service connection as the Veteran passed away during the pendency of the appeal.
- Remanded (sent back)
The appeal for service connection for residuals of a traumatic brain injury is remanded due to incomplete evidence and the need for further examination.
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