The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete development regarding the Veteran's periods of active duty for training and inactive duty for training, as well as a need for an additional VA opinion.
The deciding factor: Incomplete verification of the Veteran's military service dates is preventing a determination on her claim.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral leg thrombosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 26, 2019
- Citation
- 19196113
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,446 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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 Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for essential thrombocytosis and bilateral leg thrombosis, finding that there was no current diagnosis of these conditions and that they were not related to active duty service.
- Denied
The Board has determined that there is no current diagnosis of angina, status post stent placement and thus the claim for service connection for this condition cannot be granted. The Veteran's bilateral leg thrombosis was not found to have pre-existed her active duty service or to have been aggravated by it.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for bilateral plantar fasciitis and right elbow s/p knot removal; and to left elbow-arm secondary to left shoulder. The Veteran's other claims were not supported by the evidence of record.
- Denied
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