The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for an upper respiratory disability and bilateral hearing loss due to incomplete development of evidence. The left forearm disability claim remains denied.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner did not have access to all relevant medical records, including STRs and private treatment records, which could provide a more comprehensive analysis of the Veteran’s disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- left forearm disability, upper respiratory disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- May 31, 2019
- Citation
- 19141903
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Decisions by this judge: 1,858 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied service connection for an upper respiratory disability and a left forearm disability, finding that the Veteran's assertions of continuous symptoms since service were not credible due to the absence of contemporaneous medical notation. The Board also found no causal relationship between the in-service events and the current disabilities.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues of entitlement to service connection for an upper respiratory disability and a left forearm disability for additional medical opinions.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for hyperlipidemia and remanded the claims for periodic limb movement disorder, sleep condition, gastroesophageal reflux disease, irritable bowel syndrome, upper respiratory disability, elevated blood pressure, elevated prostate condition, fatigue, right hip condition, dizziness, fainting, or loss of consciousness, pneumonia/dyspnea, and skin, malignant neoplasm.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the claims for service connection for lower lumbar disability, upper respiratory disability, and bilateral hearing loss as there was no evidence of a current diagnosis.
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