The veteran's claim for a compensable initial disability rating for residuals of injury to the left hand is being remanded due to the need for additional examination and development.
The deciding factor: Additional medical examination is required to assess the current condition of the service-connected residuals of injury to the left hand.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of injury to the left hand
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- November 21, 2007
- Citation
- 0736629
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of injury to the left hand has been reopened and granted. The initial rating for PTSD remains at 50 percent, but a separate rating of 10 percent is assigned for dysthymic disorder. TDIU is also granted.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for further development, including a VA examination to assess the severity of his service-connected residuals of injury to the left hand.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board found no evidence of ankylosis or other disabling conditions that would warrant a higher evaluation for the veteran's left hand disability, and thus denied his claim for an increased rating.
- Whole decision: 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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