The Board has remanded the case for further development and consideration, including obtaining additional medical opinions to address the Veteran's mental health conditions and nerve disorders.
The deciding factor: Further evidence is needed to reconcile conflicting medical opinions regarding the Veteran's service-connected anxiety disorder and its impact on his overall disability picture.
- Claimed conditions
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder with Depressed Mood, Paralysis of the left radial nerve, Neuropathy of the left brachial plexus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 7, 2020
- Citation
- 20001282
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,699 · Granted: 17% (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
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- Granted
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- Granted
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- Granted
The Board has determined that the veteran's generalized anxiety disorder with depressed mood is related to his active military service and grants service connection for this condition.
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