The Board remands the case to obtain a VA examination and service personnel records to determine if the veteran's sleeping disorder is related to his military service.
The deciding factor: The record contains competent lay evidence of persistent or recurrent symptoms, indicating an in-service event, injury, or disease, necessitating further development before a decision can be made.
- Claimed conditions
- sleeping disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 27, 2009
- Citation
- 0902863
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Decisions by this judge: 2,977 · Granted: 27% (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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