The Board has withdrawn the appeal for service connection of arthritis of the left foot, reopened claims for blurry vision and chronic headache disability, and remanded for further examination regarding residuals of a head injury.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms of blurry vision and headaches are linked to an in-service head injury, but there is no current diagnosis or documentation in service records.
- Claimed conditions
- Arthritis of the left foot, Blurry vision, Chronic headache disability
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 23, 2019
- Citation
- 19139221
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,350 · 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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Partly granted
The Board readjudicated the claims for service connection for bilateral hearing loss, a respiratory disability, and a skin disability based on new and relevant evidence. The claims for an acquired psychiatric disability, sleep impairment, hypertension, impaired vision, residual disability from vasectomy, and a compensable rating for scars were denied.
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