The Board has ordered additional development to obtain service medical records and police reports related to the Veteran's motor vehicle accident. The appeal is remanded for these purposes.
The deciding factor: Additional evidence is needed to determine if the Veteran sustained injuries during his period of honorable service, which could affect his claims for service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of compression fractures of the thoracic spine, pinched nerve in the left shoulder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 13, 2009
- Citation
- 0917892
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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.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims of entitlement to service connection for compression fractures of the thoracic spine and a pinched nerve in the left shoulder, finding that new and material evidence had not been submitted to reopen the claim for the former condition and denying both conditions as secondary to his second period of service under other than honorable conditions.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including obtaining service treatment records and VA medical records. The Veteran's claims of entitlement to service connection for residuals of compression fractures of the thoracic spine and a pinched nerve in the left shoulder are being reviewed.
- Granted
The Board has granted a 50 percent rating for the veteran's service-connected back disability, which includes residuals of Scheuermann's disease of the thoracic and lumbar spine, residuals of contusion of thoracic spine, and residuals of compression fractures of the thoracic spine. The depression is also found to be proximately due to or the result of her service-connected back disability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to the need for additional development, including obtaining SSA records and providing proper notice regarding secondary service connection.
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