The Board has decided to remand the cases for additional development due to missing VA medical records and private medical records.
The deciding factor: The decision is based on the need to obtain relevant medical records that may be crucial for evaluating the Veteran's conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- panic disorder without agoraphobia, left eye enucleation with right eye central serous retinopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 18, 2020
- Citation
- 20080045
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.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an effective date of January 12, 2022, for the award of service connection for sinusitis and irritable bowel syndrome but denied a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss from February 17, 2022.
- Dismissed
The appeal for an earlier effective date for the grant of a 70 percent evaluation for major depressive disorder, PTSD, and panic disorder without agoraphobia has been withdrawn by the Veteran's attorney.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include major depression with anxious distress, panic disorder without agoraphobia, and general anxiety, as it requires a medical opinion regarding the etiology of the Veteran's claimed condition.
- Denied
The appeal for an earlier effective date for the assigned 100 percent rating for service-connected psychiatric disability was denied.
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