The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for HTN, ED, and eczema as secondary to DM or as secondary to exposure to herbicides due to insufficient medical opinions regarding these conditions.
The deciding factor: The July 2017 VA examiner did not provide sufficient opinion on whether any of the claimed conditions had their onset in service or are otherwise etiologically related to service, including the conceded exposure to herbicide agents.
- Claimed conditions
- Hypertension (HTN), Erectile Dysfunction (ED), Eczema
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 4, 2019
- Citation
- 19101118
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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