The Board has remanded the claims for further development due to insufficient medical opinions regarding the Veteran's heart, neurological, and skin conditions. The VA must provide addendum opinions addressing these issues.
The deciding factor: The VA needs to obtain additional medical opinions that address the Veteran's theories of service connection based on in-service herbicide exposure and other chemical exposures.
- Claimed conditions
- heart disorder (claimed as coronary artery disease), neurological disorder (claimed as tremors), skin disorder (claimed as cutaneous pre-cancerous malignancy and skin cancer)
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 6, 2022
- Citation
- 22026985
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for a heart disorder, claimed as coronary artery disease, and hypertension prior to August 10, 2022. The evidence does not support a finding of current disability or a link between these conditions and service.
- Granted
The Veteran's claim to reopen her service connection for a neurological disorder, including lung and skin disorders, is granted. The issue of secondary service connection due to PTSD is remanded.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran is entitled to service connection for migraine headaches, as there is sufficient evidence of a current disability and in-service onset. However, the heart disorder (claimed as coronary artery disease) cannot be linked to service due to lack of continuity of symptoms.
- Granted
The Veteran's claims for service connection have been reopened, and new evidence has raised a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claims. The effective date remains pending as it is not specified in the decision.
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