The Board has not made a determination on the service connection claim due to insufficient evidence and needs further examination.
The deciding factor: The Board requires additional medical opinion regarding the nature and etiology of any current skin disorder, including whether it is caused or aggravated by an in-service injury or disease, particularly an allergy to wool.
- Claimed conditions
- skin disability, wool allergy
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 29, 2019
- Citation
- 19106388
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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for a right foot disability, left foot disability, and skin disability to obtain additional medical opinions.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for asthma and remanded the claims for sinus disability, bilateral hip disability, right shoulder disability, hypertension, sleep apnea, diabetes mellitus, skin disability, back disability, bilateral neurological disability of the upper extremities, and bilateral neurological disability of the lower extremities.
- Dismissed
The veteran withdrew the appeal for all issues, including service connection claims and a higher rating claim.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for a back disability, otitis media, and a skin disability as there was no evidence to support that these conditions were related to his military service.
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