The Board has remanded the claims for hypertension, prostate disability, diabetes mellitus, and acquired psychiatric disabilities other than PTSD (depression and generalized anxiety disorder) due to a lack of contemporaneous records. The Veteran's service connection claims will be readjudicated after these examinations are completed.
The deciding factor: The absence of contemporaneous medical records does not preclude granting service connection for the claimed conditions, but it requires additional development such as scheduling appropriate VA examinations to determine the nature and etiology of each condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Hepatitis, Bladder disorder, Prostate disability, Diabetes mellitus, Acquired psychiatric disability other than PTSD (depression and generalized anxiety disorder)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19108941
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,017 · Granted: 36% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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