The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including a VA examination to clarify diagnoses and provide nexus opinions regarding any residuals from an in-service auto accident.
The deciding factor: The veteran's claims are being remanded due to the need for additional evidentiary development, specifically a VA examination to clarify diagnoses and address the relationship between any current disabilities and the in-service auto accident.
- Claimed conditions
- scar on back, residuals of an auto accident (including back disability)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 28, 2005
- Citation
- 0534946
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted initial ratings of 50 percent for unspecified depressive disorder, 60 percent for degenerative arthritis of the spine with IVDS, status post spinal fusion, and 40 percent for radiculopathy, right lower extremity. The claim for a compensable rating for scar on back was denied, and TDIU was granted.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for an initial rating in excess of 50 percent for depressive disorder with anxious distress and entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to service-connected disabilities are being remanded due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors. The AOJ is instructed to obtain the Veteran's vocational rehabilitation folder, as well as a VA retrospective medical opinion addressing his ability to secure and follow substantially gainful employment during the appeal period.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an initial evaluation in excess of 10 percent for his service-connected coronary artery disease, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating based on the severity of his condition.
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