The Board has decided to remand the case due to incomplete medical records and requests for additional information. The Veteran's claim for service connection for a liver disability will be reviewed again after obtaining all relevant medical records.
The deciding factor: Incomplete medical records prevented a thorough review of the case, necessitating further development.
- Claimed conditions
- liver disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 30, 2024
- Citation
- 24034784
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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.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 70 percent rating for PTSD and an initial 10 percent rating for a headache disability, while denying ratings in excess of 40 percent for a low back disability and any compensable rating for allergic rhinitis. Service connection was granted for tinnitus and bilateral foot disabilities but denied for other conditions.
- Dismissed
The appeal for issues related to eczema, IBS, headaches, liver disability, enlarged prostate and urinary frequency, allergic rhinitis, and restrictive lung disease were dismissed. The claim for a rating in excess of 10 percent for allergic rhinitis was denied.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for tinnitus, but denied service connection for the other conditions listed.
- Partly granted
The Board denied earlier effective dates for nephrolithiasis and onychomycosis, dismissed an appeal seeking an earlier effective date for excision of cyst from the scalp, granted a 10 percent rating for excision of cyst from the scalp, and remanded entitlement to service connection for a liver disability.
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