The Board has ordered the case to be remanded for additional development of the record, including obtaining relevant medical records and scheduling a VA examination.
The deciding factor: Additional evidence is needed to determine if the veteran's dizziness had its onset during active service or is causally related to it.
- Claimed conditions
- dizziness
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 21, 2006
- Citation
- 0629848
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for dizziness to obtain an adequate medical opinion addressing whether it is related to service or a service-connected disability.
- Partly granted
The Board granted restoration of a 20 percent rating for the service-connected lumbosacral strain, effective May 1, 2023. The other claims were denied.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for dizziness, migraine headaches, right shoulder disability, left shoulder disability, and asthma, secondary to a service-connected condition. The claim for an initial compensable rating for syphilis was denied.
- Partly granted
The Board granted effective dates of May 31, 2023, for the awards of a 10 percent disability rating for rhinitis and a 50 percent disability rating for migraines. The award of service connection for urinary incontinence was denied an earlier effective date.
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