The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection due to insufficient medical opinions and missing records. The VA must obtain relevant treatment records, conduct new examinations, and provide adequate opinions regarding the etiology of the Veteran's claimed conditions.
The deciding factor: The decision is based on the need for additional evidence and examination to determine the validity of the Veteran's claims.
- Claimed conditions
- Low Back Injury, Right Hip Injury, Epididymitis (right testicle)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 27, 2019
- Citation
- 19166489
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient evidence regarding the Veteran's right hip injury, including a lack of private treatment records and an inadequate VA examination. The Veteran is presumed to have submitted new and material evidence when he provided a statement about his in-service injuries.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for a right hip injury and lower back condition, including as secondary to his right hip injury. The VA examiners need to provide an addendum opinion addressing whether there is at least a 50% likelihood that these conditions are related to service or if they were aggravated by the right hip injury.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board finds that the evidence does not support an extra-schedular evaluation for residuals of a low back injury after October 18, 1994. The veteran's employment issues are due to his service-connected disability rather than the severity of his condition.
- Denied
The veteran's low back disability is currently rated at 40 percent, effective October 8, 2003. The claim for a higher rating remains denied.
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