The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including obtaining medical opinions and records to determine the severity of his service-connected left eye diplopia and residual scar. The right eye issue must also be addressed.
The deciding factor: Additional evidence and examination are needed to properly assess the current level of disability for the Veteran's service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- left eye diplopia, residual scar to the left lateral eye orbit
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 7, 2014
- Citation
- 1405634
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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 compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 for resolving left third nerve palsy and left eye diplopia due to a Kenalog injection because the evidence did not show that the Veteran's disability was caused by the April 2010 VA injection.
- Denied
The Veteran's claim for a higher rating for left eye diplopia and TDIU on an extraschedular basis was denied. The Board found that the current 40 percent rating adequately reflects the severity of his disability, as it accounted for interference with employment due to loss of pilot and state trooper positions.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided that the Veteran's claim for service connection of a left eye disability, to include diplopia, must be remanded due to insufficient evidence and incomplete medical records.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 is remanded due to the submission of new evidence, and he has been requested to waive RO review.
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