The Veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of a traumatic brain injury is denied as the evidence does not support that the condition began during active service or is otherwise related to an in-service injury, event, or disease.,An effective date of August 15, 2013, but no earlier, has been granted for the grant of service connection for tinnitus. This is one year prior to the receipt of the completed Fully Developed Claim form by the Veteran.,The claim for an effective date prior to July 31, 2014 for the grant of service connection for PTSD is denied as there was no new and material evidence submitted within one year following the denial in May 2013. The RO reopened the claim but again denied it based on lack of a nexus to service.,The Veteran's claim for secondary service connection for erectile dysfunction to include as secondary to service-connected PTSD is remanded due to an inadequate opinion from the July 2016 VA examiner.,The Veteran's claim for secondary service connection for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) to include as secondary to a service-connected disability is remanded due to an inadequate opinion from the December 2015 VA examiner.,The Veteran's claim for secondary service connection for a headache disorder to include as secondary to service-connected PTSD and/or tinnitus is remanded due to an inadequate opinion from the July 2016 VA examiner.
The deciding factor: The claims are being remanded because the opinions provided by the VA examiners were not thorough or addressed all aspects of the Veteran's claims, particularly regarding secondary service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- {"condition_name":"residuals of traumatic brain injury"}, {"condition_name":"tinnitus"}, {"condition_name":"posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)"}
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 27, 2019
- Citation
- 19166565
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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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