The Board has remanded the veteran's claims due to conflicting diagnoses and inadequate evidence regarding the onset of his claimed conditions during service.
The deciding factor: The current record is inadequate to render a fully informed decision on the issue without the benefit of medical expertise, necessitating further evidentiary development.
- Claimed conditions
- undiagnosed illness manifested by headaches, loss of sense of smell, loss of sense of taste, allergic rhinitis with nasal polyps, Grave's disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 13, 2006
- Citation
- 0620323
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,643 · Granted: 15% (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.
What you can do next
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