The Board has decided to remand the Veteran's claims for service connection due to incomplete medical records and inadequate examination. The case will be returned for further development.
The deciding factor: The VA examination is inadequate as it does not consider the Veteran’s exposure claims and missing treatment records are needed.
- Claimed conditions
- recurrent staph infections of the skin, recurrent rashes of the face and arms, melanoma of the left arm, melanoma of the right arm
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 19, 2019
- Citation
- 19119975
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,287 · Granted: 23% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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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