The Board has remanded the claims for service connection due to herbicide exposure for further development, including obtaining an opinion on whether the Veteran's conditions are related to his military service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner did not provide opinions regarding functional impairment and toxicity symptoms as requested in the March 2020 remand directives.
- Claimed conditions
- lymphocytosis, myelodysplastic disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 17, 2020
- Citation
- 20067364
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Decisions by this judge: 2,050 · Granted: 23% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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.
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the Veteran's appeals for service connection for kidney disease stage 2, lymphocytosis, and leukocytosis as they were already adjudicated in a previous decision.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claim of service connection for myelodysplastic syndrome due to a duty to assist error. The Veteran's death was attributed to his service-connected coronary artery disease, which is presumed related to herbicide agent exposure.
- Denied
The Board has denied service connection for hypertension, kidney disease stage 2, lymphocytosis, and leukocytosis (secondary to GERD). The right eye subconjunctival hemorrhage claim is remanded.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for lymphocytosis and fibromyalgia secondary to the Veteran's service-connected hepatitis C, finding that the evidence is at least evenly balanced as to whether these conditions were caused by his service-connected condition.
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