The Veteran's appeal is remanded for additional medical opinions regarding his ability to obtain and maintain substantially gainful employment due to his service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: Additional medical opinions are necessary to evaluate the impact of the Veteran’s service-connected disabilities on his employability.
- Claimed conditions
- granuloma of the left lung, other specified trauma and stressor-related disorder (mental disorder)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 13, 2019
- Citation
- 19161812
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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.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities render him unable to secure or follow substantially gainful employment, and the Board has granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU).
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected granuloma of the left lung is currently rated as noncompensable due to its asymptomatic nature and lack of associated pulmonary disability.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a left knee injury, a dental disorder, and various other conditions, as well as denied new and material evidence to reopen claims for several previously denied conditions. The veteran was granted a 10% rating for an eyebrow scar but not for scars on the biceps or shoulder.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased evaluations for his left shoulder scar, atrial hypertension, bilateral hearing loss, and granuloma of the left lung as they did not meet the criteria for a higher evaluation under applicable diagnostic codes.
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