The Board has remanded the cases for additional development due to insufficient medical opinions regarding the relationship between the Veteran's current conditions and his military service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner is needed to provide an opinion on whether the Veteran's current Parkinson’s disease, non-epileptic seizures, and interstitial cystitis are related to exposure during military service.
- Claimed conditions
- Interstitial cystitis of the bladder, Parkinson’s disease, Non-epileptic seizures
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 11, 2018
- Citation
- 18117540
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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
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- Dismissed
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- Dismissed
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- Granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for Parkinson’s disease and related symptoms was granted with an effective date of March 1, 2012. The travel voucher submitted by the Veteran in June 2018 provided sufficient information to identify and obtain relevant service records.
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