The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for right ankle, right wrist, and left wrist disabilities due to insufficient reasons and bases in the previous decision. The Veteran must be afforded VA examinations to determine the etiology of his claimed conditions.
The deciding factor: The Board found that there were insufficient reasons and bases in the previous decision regarding the Veteran's claims for service connection for right ankle, right wrist, and left wrist disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Right ankle disability, Right wrist disability, Left wrist disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 25, 2017
- Citation
- 1701909
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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 claim for an earlier effective date of January 10, 1997, for a 10% disability rating for his right ankle disability is denied as there was no CUE in the previous decisions.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew the claims for psychiatric disability and sleep apnea.,Service connection was granted for right lower extremity radiculopathy and left lower extremity radiculopathy secondary to a service-connected back disability, but denied for right wrist disability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient evidence regarding whether the Veteran's right ankle disability is related to his service. The VA examiner must provide an opinion on this matter.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to a duty-to-assist error, and will consider new evidence submitted by the Veteran.
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