Fagan v. Shinseki

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• holding that it is the claimant's general evidentiary burden to establish all elements of the claim
• holding that it is the claimant's general evidentiary burden to establish all elements of the claim
• holding that the Veterans Court did not err by disregarding an inconclusive, nonprobative medical opinion because it was “not pertinent evidence, one way or the other” to service connection
• holding that the Court did not err as a matter of law when it treated as \non-evidence\ an examiner's statement that recites the inability to come to an opinion
• holding that the Court did not err as a matter of law when it treated as \non-evidence\ an examiner's statement that recites the inability to come to an opinion
• noting that the benefit of the doubt standard in section 5107(b) is not applicable based on pure speculation or remote possibility

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