The Board remands the claims for service connection for residuals of cold weather injury and residuals of right knee injury to the RO for further development.
The deciding factor: The case must be returned to the RO for review of additional evidence received since the last supplemental statement of the case.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of cold weather injury, residuals of right knee injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 4, 2009
- Citation
- 0907823
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 108 · Granted: 15% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the appeals for service connection of a facial cyst and right knee injury as there was no adjudicative determination within one year prior to the Veteran's August 2021 Notice of Disagreement.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for residuals of cold weather injury, radiation poisoning, and an acquired psychiatric disorder (including anxiety and stress) due to VA's failure to obtain certain private treatment records and VA medical center records.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeal for a rating in excess of 10 percent for residuals of right knee injury before the Board could make a decision.
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the percentage requirements for a schedular TDIU rating, and there is no evidence to support an extraschedular TDIU rating due to her ability to secure and follow substantially gainful employment.
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