The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient opinions regarding the relationship between the Veteran's eye disorder and herbicide exposure during service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner did not address the significance of the Veteran’s Agent Orange exposure in determining whether his current eye disorder is related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Eye Disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 29, 2019
- Citation
- 19181654
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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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