The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient medical opinions regarding whether the Veteran's visual disability is related to service, including herbicide agent exposure, or secondary to his service-connected diabetes mellitus.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner did not provide thorough rationales for their conclusions and failed to consider whether the Veteran's vision symptoms could be related to diabetic eye disease.
- Claimed conditions
- Visual disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 10, 2022
- Citation
- 22007679
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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
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the cases for further examination and opinion regarding service connection for heart disability and visual disability, as they are related to herbicide agent exposure. The examiner is asked to determine if any of these disabilities are due to a presumptive disease or directly related to service.
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the Veteran's claims for service connection of low back, bilateral ankle, visual disabilities, nonservice-connected pension and TDIU. The claim for service connection of bilateral hearing loss is denied. The issues of service connection for right knee, left knee, hypertension, and an acquired psychiatric disorder (PTSD) are remanded.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a visual disability, finding that it is not related to his active service or any service-connected condition.
- Denied
The Board found that the veteran's visual and foot disabilities were not caused by VA treatment, as they resulted from an intervening event (diabetes) rather than negligence or fault on the part of VA.
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