The Board granted reopening of the claim for shingles or other skin disorder based on new and material evidence, while denying service connection for Parkinson's disease and actinic keratosis. Service connection claims for acquired psychiatric disorder and dementia were remanded for further development.
The deciding factor: The shingles claim was reopened due to new medical evidence of actinic keratosis diagnosis raising reasonable possibility of substantiation, Parkinson's disease was denied because recent objective brain DAT scan showed no evidence of parkinsonism despite prior lay assertions, actinic keratosis was denied due to lack of nexus evidence and no indication of service connection, and the psychiatric and dementia claims were remanded for further proceedings.
- Claimed conditions
- Shingles or other skin disorder, Parkinson's disease, Actinic keratosis, Acquired psychiatric disorder, Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Depression, Dementia, Prostate cancer
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 9, 2020
- Citation
- 20002204
What this means for you
A partial grant means some issues were granted while others were denied or remanded — common in multi-issue claims. Look at which issues went which way, and how each was argued.
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