The Veteran's claim for bilateral hip disability and degenerative disc disease with lumbar disc herniation is granted. The issue of service connection for the bilateral hip disability is remanded due to insufficient evidence.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner needs to provide an opinion on whether the hip disabilities are related to service or service-connected conditions, including secondary service connection for the hip disability due to the Veteran's service-connected lumbar spine disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative disc disease with lumbar disc herniation, Bilateral hip disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 19, 2019
- Citation
- 19186962
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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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands several issues for further development, including service connection claims and an earlier effective date claim.
- Partly granted
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- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a bilateral hip disability due to insufficient evidence of a current disability and no in-service incurrence or aggravation.
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