The Board denied service connection for tremors of the right and left hands, finding no current diagnosis.,The Veteran's claim for an increased rating for basal cell carcinoma was remanded due to insufficient evidence.
The deciding factor: The preponderance of the evidence did not support a current diagnosis of tremors or basal cell carcinoma.
- Claimed conditions
- Tremors of the right hand, Tremors of the left hand
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 11, 2019
- Citation
- 19127683
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,820 · Granted: 26% (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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