The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims of entitlement to service connection for right shoulder disability as secondary to his service-connected degenerative disc disease with herniated nucleus pulposus of the lumbar spine and entitlement to a temporary total disability rating based on convalescence due to right shoulder disability. The case is being returned to the Board for further development.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's claims are remanded as the Board failed to address his secondary theory of entitlement in its October 2017 decision, and the CAVC found that the appeal was intertwined with the temporary total disability rating claim due to the overlap in issues.
- Claimed conditions
- right shoulder disability, degenerative disc disease with herniated nucleus pulposus of the lumbar spine
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 18, 2020
- Citation
- 20061601
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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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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
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