The Board has granted service connection for defective vision of the left eye, which represents a full grant of the benefits sought in the August 1, 1994 decision that declined to reopen the previously denied claim.
The deciding factor: The Board found clear and unmistakable error in the previous denial and granted service connection based on new evidence.
- Claimed conditions
- defective vision of the left eye
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 26, 2019
- Citation
- 19189266
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Decisions by this judge: 1,432 · Granted: 29% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded due to the need for a Travel Board hearing and the procedural defect in not providing a Statement of the Case (SOC) regarding his claims for service connection for vertigo and syncope.
- Denied
The Board denied reopening the veteran's claim for service connection for defective vision of the left eye and denied entitlement to a compensable disability rating for chorioretinitis of the right eye.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's petition to reopen his claim for service connection for defective vision of the left eye, finding that no new and material evidence had been received.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for stress and a nervous disorder, bilateral hearing loss, pre-existing anisometropia amblyopia of the right eye, and defective vision of the left eye. The evidence did not establish that any of these conditions were incurred or aggravated by service.
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