The Board has remanded the cases for additional development due to incomplete examinations and missing records.
The deciding factor: Incomplete medical examination results and missing treatment records prevent a determination of current disability levels and etiology.
- Claimed conditions
- Right femur disability, Flat feet
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 31, 2019
- Citation
- 19196801
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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.
- Partly granted
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- Partly granted
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- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for flat feet, right ear hearing loss, left ear hearing loss, and tinnitus.
- Granted
The Veteran was granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities, resolving reasonable doubt in his favor.
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