The Board has ordered the case remanded for additional development, including obtaining updated medical records and scheduling a VA examination. The veteran's claim of entitlement to an increased rating in excess of 10 percent for residuals of a shell fragment wound to the right shoulder remains pending.
The deciding factor: The decision is remanded due to errors in notification and addressing of the veteran's claims file, including failure to obtain updated mailing addresses and denial based on non-reporting for VA examination without proper notice.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a shell fragment wound to the right shoulder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 9, 2007
- Citation
- 0710124
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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.
- Denied
The Board found no evidence of a right shoulder disability in service and denied the claim for service connection.
- Denied
The Board denied a rating in excess of 20 percent for the veteran's residuals of a shell fragment wound to the right shoulder and denied entitlement to a compensable evaluation for his bilateral hearing loss.
- Denied
The Board denied claims for increased ratings and service connection, finding that the veteran's conditions were not related to his service-connected shell fragment wound.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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