The Board has remanded the claims for bilateral knee pain due to incomplete development, including a lack of an opinion addressing whether the current knee disabilities are related to service or caused by working on the ship and incorrectly walking due to leg infections.
The deciding factor: Incomplete development was found in the prior VA examination, specifically regarding the likelihood that any current right and left knee disabilities had their onset during service or were otherwise causally related to his service.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee pain, right knee pain
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 29, 2019
- Citation
- 19167279
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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
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