LAY STATEMENTS - Military Order of the Purple Heart

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LAY STATEMENTS CAN SUPPORT OR PROVE Event or Injury in Service • VA "cannot determine that lay evidence lacks credibility merely because it is unaccompanied by contemporaneous medical evidence." Buchanan v. Nicholson NSO advice: Buchanan is a good case to cite if no record of injury/medical treatment in STRs MOPH NSO Annual Training Spring 2011 Orlando, FL 10
LAY STATEMENTS CAN SUPPORT OR PROVE Event or Injury in Service • Most probative when issue relates to observable event, symptom, or condition and • does not involve a medical question. Exception: : When lay statements can prove medical condition in service MOPH NSO Annual Training Spring 2011 Orlando, FL 11
Page 1 and 2: LAY STATEMENTS Celeste Krikorian MO
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