The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including obtaining medical records and scheduling a VA examination to determine if the Veteran's current frostbite residuals are related to his service in France.
The deciding factor: The decision is based on the need for further evidence and evaluation before a determination can be made regarding the Veteran's claim.
- Claimed conditions
- frostbite residuals of the right hand
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 9, 2012
- Citation
- 1234837
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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.
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The Veteran's claim of service connection for diabetes was denied in the February 2010 Board decision. New evidence received since then is not material to reopen this claim.,Right ear tinnitus was not shown as chronic in service and did not manifest within a year after discharge, nor is there continuity of symptomatology or etiological link to service. The Veteran's current right ear tinnitus is rated at 10 percent disabling under DC 7122 for arthralgia or other pain, numbness, or cold sensitivity.,Frostbite residuals of the left and right hands have been rated at 10 percent since May 11, 2016. The Veteran's current condition includes arthralgia, numbness, and cold sensitivity with tissue loss from frostbite. A higher rating is not warranted as there are no additional symptoms such as nail abnormalities, color changes, locally impaired sensation, hyperhidrosis, or x-ray abnormalities.
- Denied
The Veteran's claim for an effective date prior to December 23, 2015, for the grant of service connection for adjustment disorder was denied.,New and material evidence has been received sufficient to reopen claims for service connection for throat infection (claimed as allergies), PTSD, lumbar spine disability, frostbite residuals of the right hand, and migraine headaches.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including obtaining medical records and scheduling examinations to assess the severity of his service-connected disabilities. The case will be readjudicated after these actions.
- 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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