The Board is remanding the case due to unclear basis of entitlement and need for a medical opinion regarding whether service-connected conditions contributed to death.
The deciding factor: The Court found that the issue of whether the service-connected disorder caused the fall was inadequately addressed by the Board, requiring further clarification.
- Claimed conditions
- peroneal nerve palsy, cervical spondylitic myelopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 27, 2006
- Citation
- 0633393
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Decisions by this judge: 3,319 · Granted: 25% (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.
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