The Board has determined that the Veteran's service connection claims for bilateral upper and lower extremity peripheral neuropathy due to chemical exposure during active duty are remanded due to insufficient evidence in the record.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner was unable to offer an opinion without resorting to speculation, necessitating further development of the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral upper and lower extremity peripheral neuropathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Burn pits / airborne hazards
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 23, 2019
- Citation
- 19104980
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.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's requests for extensions of time to file appeals from rating decisions that denied service connection were denied, and the attempted appeals are dismissed.
- Dismissed
The appeal for service connection for various conditions was dismissed as there was no decision in the Appeals Modernization Act (AMA) system to appeal at the time of the request.
- Dismissed
The appeal was dismissed because the veteran died while it was pending.
- Dismissed
The appeal for service connection for diabetes mellitus, type II, and bilateral upper and lower extremity peripheral neuropathy was dismissed due to the Veteran's death.
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