The Board has determined that additional development is needed for both claims of service connection, including obtaining medical records and conducting further examinations.
The deciding factor: The Board found the existing evidence insufficient to make a determination on the merits without further examination and review of new evidence.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a right groin injury, residuals to chemical burns to the eyes
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- December 22, 2000
- Citation
- 0033452
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to an error in failing to address the probative value of the November 2021 VA examination, which linked the Veteran's current right hip disability to his April 1994 injury. The examiner is requested to provide a new opinion on whether it is at least as likely as not that the Veteran's current right hip disability is caused by or otherwise etiologically related to any in-service hip injury.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection as his right hip fracture, status post open reduction and internal fixation and total hip arthroplasty, has not been linked by probative evidence to his active service.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have a current disability of the groin, and thus service connection for residuals of a right groin injury is denied.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case for additional development, including obtaining treatment records and scheduling a VA examination.
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