The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for additional development, including obtaining private medical records and providing a VA medical opinion regarding the cause of his sun sensitivity and psychiatric disorder.
The deciding factor: The decision is based on insufficient evidence to determine if there was an additional disability due to VA treatment, specifically Niacin prescribed by VA. The Board also requires attempts to obtain private medical records from Dr. O'Grady for PTSD.
- Claimed conditions
- Sun sensitivity, Psychiatric disorder, to include Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 24, 2021
- Citation
- 21070668
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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.
- Denied
The Veteran's claim for compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 for sun sensitivity due to VA prescribing Niacin and Niaspan was denied, as the evidence did not show that his condition was caused by carelessness, negligence, or similar fault on the part of VA. His service connection claim for a psychiatric disorder was also denied.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for a psychiatric disorder, to include Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), based on credible supporting evidence of an in-service stressor. Service connection for a gastrointestinal disorder manifested by chest pain is denied.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for hearing loss and a psychiatric disorder due to additional development being required.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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