The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim for service connection for a bilateral hip condition due to new and material evidence. The case is now remanded for further development, including a VA examination.
The deciding factor: New evidence indicates that the Veteran’s current hip disability may be related to his service-connected back disability.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hip condition
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 17, 2019
- Citation
- 19179133
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 remands the claims for service connection for a neck condition, bilateral elbow condition, bilateral hip condition, bilateral ankle condition, and narcolepsy due to inadequate VA examinations and potential pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a bilateral foot, leg, hip and low back condition as the evidence did not support a finding that these conditions were directly related to active-duty service or secondary to a service-connected knee condition.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for unspecified depressive disorder with anxious distress, back condition, headaches, bilateral hip condition, and erectile dysfunction. The Veteran was granted an earlier effective date of May 6, 2022, but no earlier, for an initial noncompensable rating for bilateral hearing loss.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the appeal for a new VA medical opinion to address the etiology of the Veteran's bilateral hip condition, including whether it is related to her service or any service-connected disabilities.
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