The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for a respiratory disability, sinus bradycardia, nasal disability, and right knee disability due to insufficient evidence in the record. The Veteran will need to provide updated VA treatment records and undergo examinations to determine the etiology of these disabilities.
The deciding factor: The Board found that there was not sufficient evidence to support the denial of service connection for the claimed conditions and thus requires additional development, including obtaining updated medical records and scheduling the Veteran for VA examinations.
- Claimed conditions
- respiratory disability (including asthma and restrictive lung disease with dyspnea), sinus bradycardia, nasal disability (including nasal passage blockage), right knee disability (including compression arthralgia)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 30, 2020
- Citation
- 20075944
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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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- Dismissed
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- Partly granted
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