Veterans Claims· 4/7/1994

Harvey v. Brown

Citations

6 Vet. App. 390
1994 U.S. Vet. App. LEXIS 264
1994 WL 113605

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upholding a Board decision assigning more probative value to a contemporaneous medical record report regarding the cause of a fall than subsequent lay statements asserting different etiology
claim well grounded where testimony of veteran’s widow related to observable sequence of events that led to trauma
lay person may testify to incidents or sequence of events that relate to the claimed injury
where claimant was describing sequence of observable events, her statements were sufficient to render claim well grounded
Board decision properly assigned more probative value to a private hospital record that included lay history that was made for treatment purposes than to subsequent statements made for compensation purposes
where veteran’s widow was testifying as to observable sequence of events that led to trauma, she was not necessarily opining on matter involving medical causation, and her statements were thus sufficient to render claim well grounded

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Judges: Holdaway, Ivers, Mankin

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