The Board has granted service connection for residuals of a head injury, to include TBI, and awarded a TDIU rating based on the Veteran's service-connected disabilities. The issue of service connection for the cause of the Veteran’s death is remanded.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established as direct service connection due to in-service head trauma resulting in TBI.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a head injury, TBI
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- December 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19191716
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the case for additional medical evaluation to determine if the Veteran's symptoms are separate from his service-connected disabilities.
- Denied
The Board denied an initial compensable rating for the Veteran's service-connected TBI and remanded the claim for service connection for headaches, to include as secondary to service-connected disabilities.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for all the claimed conditions as they are not related to active service.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for multiple conditions, but granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus.
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