The Veteran's claim is being remanded for additional development, including obtaining private treatment records from Dr. Laplac and the Hampton VAMC.
The deciding factor: Additional evidence is needed to fully evaluate the Veteran's condition and determine his current disability rating.
- Claimed conditions
- left median nerve injury, status post laceration
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 24, 2014
- Citation
- 1403107
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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.
- Granted
The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been submitted to reopen the veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of a left median nerve injury based on aggravation during service. The case is remanded for further development, including obtaining medical records from Portsmouth Naval Hospital and providing the veteran with an examination to determine if his pre-existing condition was aggravated by service.
- Denied
The Board denied the claims for an evaluation in excess of 20 percent for a gunshot wound to the left shoulder and for an effective date prior to January 30, 1990, for the grant of a 30 percent rating. The decision was based on the existing evidence and the reasonable exercise of judgment by the Board.
- 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.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an initial evaluation in excess of 10 percent for his service-connected coronary artery disease, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating based on the severity of his condition.
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