The Board has remanded the case for additional development due to issues related to reopening a claim and service connection.
The deciding factor: The decision was based on the need to provide proper notice regarding what evidence would be necessary to substantiate the elements required to establish service connection that were found insufficient in the previous denial, specifically continuity of knee disability after discharge from service.
- Claimed conditions
- arthritis of both knees, hemorrhage of the stomach, frostbite
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 1, 2006
- Citation
- 0627702
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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 service connection for frostbite, finding it to be causally related to the Veteran's military service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for various conditions, including right knee osteoarthritis, left knee osteoarthritis, upper back condition, degenerative disc disease of the lower back, migraine headaches, right wrist condition, carpal tunnel of the right hand, and frostbite, as further development is needed to obtain the Veteran's complete service treatment records and provide VA examinations.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's TDIU claim is remanded due to the need for a new examination and additional information regarding his occupational history.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's claim for frostbite was dismissed as she withdrew her appeal.,Her petition to reopen the PTSD claim due to military sexual trauma was granted, and service connection is now established.
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