The Board has remanded the case for further development, including obtaining medical records and providing a supplemental statement of the case. The Veteran's claims for service connection for frostbite residuals and reopening his claim for impotence caused by incorrect prescriptions are pending.
The deciding factor: The Board found that additional development was necessary as per its previous instructions.
- Claimed conditions
- left lower extremity frostbite residuals, right lower extremity frostbite residuals
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 3, 2011
- Citation
- 1108539
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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 has denied the Veteran's claim for an effective date prior to July 24, 2017, for the awards of service connection for bilateral lower and upper extremity frostbite, Raynaud’s syndrome, and PTSD. The appeal is based on a direct service connection theory.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have any current disabilities related to his military service, including back injury residuals, hand disorders, knee disorders, frostbite residuals, or hearing loss and tinnitus.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected cold injury residuals of the upper and lower extremities have been rated at 10 percent prior to July 15, 2008, and at 20 percent since then. The Board finds that these ratings are appropriate.
- Denied
The Board determined that the veteran's claims for left lower extremity frostbite residuals, arthritis, and a vascular disability were not well-grounded. The VA did not have sufficient evidence to establish service connection for any of these conditions.
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