The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for a new hearing at the RO to address his claims of service connection and increased ratings.
The deciding factor: The Board has determined that additional development, including scheduling a new hearing, is necessary before proceeding with the adjudication of the Veteran's claims.
- Claimed conditions
- urethral stricture with history of urethrotomy, syncopal episodes (claimed as seizures), condyloma acuminata with herpes simplex virus II (HSV II), renal lithiasis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 12, 2014
- Citation
- 1436079
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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 determined that the Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not preclude her from obtaining or maintaining substantially gainful employment, and thus, she is not entitled to a TDIU.
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not result in an inability to obtain or maintain substantially gainful employment.
- Denied
The Veteran's claims for service connection and increased ratings were denied. The Board found that the Veteran does not have a diagnosed seizure disorder, his syncopal episodes are not shown by competent evidence to be causally related to service or service-connected disabilities, and his renal lithiasis and condyloma acuminata with HSV II do not meet the criteria for the assigned ratings.
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected kidney disability does not prevent him from securing and following substantially gainful employment.
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