The Board has decided to remand the case for further development due to recent legislation requiring additional assistance in determining service connection.
The deciding factor: Recent legislation mandates that VA provide assistance to develop all facts pertinent to a claim, including medical examinations when such examination may substantiate entitlement to benefits.
- Claimed conditions
- Conversion disorder, Paralysis of the lower extremities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- May 4, 2001
- Citation
- 0112778
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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: Denied
The Veteran's claim for payment of non-VA medical services provided on April 19, 2016 is denied because the care was not pre-approved and did not qualify as emergency treatment. The Board found that a prudent layperson would not have expected a delay in seeking immediate medical attention to be hazardous to life or health.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete service records and need for further development regarding stressor events in service, psychiatric disability etiology, and evaluation of existing evidence. The Veteran's claims for PTSD and depression are being considered under direct service connection theory.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to inadequate opinions regarding the adverse reaction to VA supplied medication. A Veteran's Health Administration specialist opinion is needed to address whether the speech impairments, lower extremity weakness, and dystonic reaction were caused by the ingestion of Gabapentin or Dubutamine.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities prevented her from maintaining substantially gainful employment prior to November 3, 2016. The combined rating of the service-connected conditions is 90 percent, meeting the criteria for a TDIU.
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