The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim for service connection for a left forearm disability due to new and material evidence submitted since the last denial. The case is remanded for further development.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence was received that relates to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim of entitlement to service connection for a left forearm disability.
- Claimed conditions
- left forearm disability
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 16, 2020
- Citation
- 20003795
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Decisions by this judge: 2,242 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for an upper respiratory disability and a left forearm disability, finding that the Veteran's assertions of continuous symptoms since service were not credible due to the absence of contemporaneous medical notation. The Board also found no causal relationship between the in-service events and the current disabilities.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues of entitlement to service connection for an upper respiratory disability and a left forearm disability for additional medical opinions.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a left forearm disability, finding that there is no evidence of a separate, distinct left forearm disability related to his active-duty service.
- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for left forearm and left knee disabilities, finding no current disability and insufficient evidence to establish a link between any in-service injury or disease and the claimed conditions.
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