The Board has remanded the case to the RO for further development and review of the evidence in the first instance.
The deciding factor: The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals required that the case be remanded to the RO for review of the evidence in the first instance due to previous vacated decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
- Claimed conditions
- parastomal hernia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 28, 2005
- Citation
- 0502149
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Decisions by this judge: 2,020 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
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