The Board has remanded the case due to an inadequate VA examination, and further development is needed before a decision can be made on the claim for service connection for residuals of a left knee injury with healed lacerations.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner did not adequately address the Veteran's lay statements regarding his pre-service knee problems and failed to consider all relevant evidence in rendering an opinion.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee injury with healed lacerations
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 22, 2012
- Citation
- 1210674
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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 claim for service connection for residuals of a left knee injury with healed lacerations, finding that his current left knee disability was not aggravated by service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for further development, including scheduling a VA examination to evaluate the Veteran's left knee disability and determine if it was aggravated during service.
- Denied
The Veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of a left knee injury with healed lacerations was denied because the Board found that he did not have a current disability related to his preexisting condition.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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