The Board has remanded the claims of service connection for left hip lesion, headache disability (claimed as migraines), and buttocks disability due to insufficient evidence. The rating for left hip bursitis remains denied.
The deciding factor: The medical opinions found no direct or secondary causation between the claimed disabilities and active service.
- Claimed conditions
- left hip lesion, headache disability (claimed as migraines), buttocks disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 31, 2020
- Citation
- 20057456
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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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