The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for a right ankle disability and left ankle disability, to include as secondary to a right ankle disability due to new evidence submitted by the Veteran.
The deciding factor: New evidence received after the December 1997 rating decision relates to unestablished facts necessary to substantiate the claim of entitlement to service connection for a right ankle disability.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic synovitis, chronic right ankle pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 24, 2019
- Citation
- 19180867
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Decisions by this judge: 1,797 · Granted: 20% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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.
- Denied
The Veteran's claims for service connection for chronic right ankle pain, chronic left ankle pain, right elbow strain (dominant), left elbow strain (non-dominant), chronic right wrist pain (dominant), chronic left wrist pain (non-dominant), and chronic left knee pain were denied in the November 2019 rating decision. The Veteran did not file a Notice of Disagreement within one year, so the decision became final.,The Veteran filed a Supplemental Claim on September 26, 2019, which was received by VA and granted service connection for these conditions effective from that date.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has denied service connection for left wrist strain and remanded the claims for chronic right ankle pain and degenerative arthritis of the lumbar spine due to insufficient evidence in the record.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for left hand numbness, chronic right ankle pain, and chronic right wrist pain due to a duty-to-assist error regarding the specific dates of Active Duty for Training (ACDUTRA) or Inactive Duty for Training (INACDUTRA).
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for further development, including obtaining VA treatment records and scheduling additional VA examinations to assess the severity of the Veteran's service-connected left knee, left shoulder, and right shoulder disabilities.
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