The Board has remanded the case for further development, including obtaining records from correctional facilities and the Chattahoochee Mental Hospital.
The deciding factor: Further development is required to obtain relevant medical records as requested by the veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- personality disorder, bipolar manic depressive disorder with hypomania, head injury with a secondary nervous disorder, compound contusion of the spinal column
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 12, 2006
- Citation
- 0600940
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.
- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Partly granted
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