The veteran's claim for an increased evaluation of 20 percent for residuals, back injury is being remanded due to the lack of a claims file review and the need for further examination. The effective date for the increase remains on appeal.
The deciding factor: The case requires additional development including a VA examination and consideration of relevant clinical records.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals, back injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 14, 2007
- Citation
- 0717899
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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.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an earlier effective date of June 9, 2022, for the grant of service connection for both back injury residuals and groin injury.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection of residuals, back injury to correct a duty to assist error related to an inadequate medical opinion.
- Partly granted
The Veteran's appeal of an earlier effective date for depression and anxiety was withdrawn. The claim to reopen her service connection for residuals, back injury is granted. Her case is remanded for a VA examination regarding the etiology of her current back disability.
- 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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