The Board has denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for upper respiratory condition and remanded the issue of service connection for laceration right hand/fingers.
The deciding factor: The VA examiners' opinions were based on a thorough review of the record, but did not address whether the current upper respiratory condition is related to in-service exposure or if there was any continuity of symptoms since service.
- Claimed conditions
- laceration right hand/fingers, upper respiratory condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19108474
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Decisions by this judge: 2,272 · Granted: 31% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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.
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