Brockway v. Allstate Property & Casualty Insurance Co.

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• holding that medical treatise evidence proffered by the appellant in connection with his lay testimony was insufficient to satisfy requirement of medical evidence of nexus to well-ground claim
• affirming that § 1154(b) does not affect “Caluza’s medical nexus analysis” for a well-grounded claim
• finding that generic medical literature, which does not apply medical principles to the facts of an individual case, does not provide competent evidence
• assuming court in Collette intended to supplement Caluza’s medical-nexus analysis, rather than obviate it, and reaffirming that Caluza analysis
• a physician's statement framed in terms such as \may\ or \could\ is not probative.
• medical treatise evidence must demonstrate connection between service incur-rence and present injury or condition

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).