The Board has granted the Veteran's applications to reopen his claims for service connection for neck, back, left shoulder, and right shoulder conditions. However, it denied these claims as there is no evidence of an in-service injury or disease that could have caused the current disabilities.
The deciding factor: The preponderance of the evidence does not support a finding that the Veteran's current neck, back, left shoulder, and right shoulder conditions are related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- neck condition, back condition, left shoulder condition, right shoulder condition
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 23, 2019
- Citation
- 19196001
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 170 · Granted: 18% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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