Ramos v. Shinseki

ORDER

Jose L. Serrano Ramos appeals from a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (“Veterans Court”) denying him entitlement to service connection. We affirm.

In December 1982, while serving in the Puerto Rico National Guard, Serrano Ramos suffered a cranial fracture in an au tomobile accident. Seventeen years after that accident, he filed a disability compensation claim for residuals of a skull fracture, but that claim was denied by a Department of Veterans Affairs (“DVA”) regional office on the ground that the accident did not occur during a qualifying period of…