The Veteran's claim is being remanded for additional development, including scheduling a VA examination to assess the current severity of his service-connected bilateral knee disabilities and scars. The appeal will be readjudicated based on the evidence of record.
The deciding factor: The Veteran failed to report for a scheduled VA examination without good cause due to illness related to prostate cancer treatment.
- Claimed conditions
- shell fragment wound, right knee, shell fragment wound, left knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 5, 2016
- Citation
- 1604404
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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 Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for a TDIU as per VA regulations, and there is no evidence of an extraschedular TDIU.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for further evaluation of his service-connected bilateral knee disabilities, including a VA examination to assess the current severity and manifestations associated with these conditions.
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected lumbar degenerative disc disease, shell fragment wound of the upper right arm with retained foreign body and residual scar involvement, and shell fragment wound of the right knee are currently rated as 40 percent disabling. The appeals for higher ratings remain denied.
- 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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