The Board has remanded the cases of service connection for right knee disability, left knee disability, and left Achilles tendonitis due to inadequate opinions regarding their relationship with service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner's opinion was found to be based on inaccurate facts and did not address all relevant issues as requested by the Board in its September 2016 remand directives.
- Claimed conditions
- Recurrent callus, Scars, Status post-surgical correction of the second and fifth hammertoes, Degenerative joint disease of the second metacarpophalangeal joint
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 7, 2019
- Citation
- 19116473
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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.
What you can do next
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