The Board has remanded the cases for further review due to procedural issues, including non-compliance with Correia v. McDonald and incomplete private treatment records.
The deciding factor: Procedural issues have been identified that require additional actions to obtain necessary medical records and provide retrospective assessments of the Veteran's back disability.
- Claimed conditions
- thoracic spine injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 22, 2023
- Citation
- 23010740
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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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