The appeal is remanded to the agency of original jurisdiction for further development and adjudication.
The deciding factor: Further clinical assessment, medical opinion, and examination are needed to address the veteran's service connection claim on direct and secondary bases, as well as to assess the current severity of his service-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma with laryngectomy, excision of left vocal cord, benign nodule
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 18, 2008
- Citation
- 0812879
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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