The appeal is remanded to the RO via the Appeals Management Center (AMC) for further development of the evidence.
The deciding factor: Private medical records pertinent to the veteran's claims have not been obtained or requested, and additional VA treatment records need to be requested.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a lower back injury, residuals of a left knee injury, left wrist fracture as secondary to service-connected right knee disability, residuals of a right knee injury resulting from traumatic chondromalacia of the patella
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 18, 2008
- Citation
- 0812868
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,464 · Granted: 14% (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.
What you can do next
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