The Board remands the claims for further development, including obtaining additional medical records and scheduling a VA examination.
The deciding factor: Further evidence is needed to determine if the veteran's conditions are related to his service.
- Claimed conditions
- blackouts, impaired vision, nervous disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 25, 2008
- Citation
- 0809869
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 734 · Granted: 9% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
This is a plain-language summary generated by AI from a public Board of Veterans’ Appeals decision. It can contain errors — always verify against the original. Search VA.gov for the original decision (opens in a new tab) using citation 0809869.
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: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for vertigo, finding that there is no evidence linking his symptoms to his military service.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's appeal for a higher disability rating for PTSD and effective dates for TDIU and Dependents' Educational Assistance was denied. The Board found that the evidence did not support a higher rating than 70 percent for PTSD, and denied earlier effective dates for TDIU and Dependents' Educational Assistance.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and denied it for sinusitis. Other claims were remanded for further development.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board granted service connection for right foot peripheral neuropathy, left foot peripheral neuropathy, impaired vision, and retinal hemorrhages as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected leukemia.
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