The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for right hip disability, left hip disability, and hypothyroidism due to potential errors in the pre-decisional duty to assist. The VA examinations need to be corrected.
The deciding factor: The VA examinations did not adequately address the relationship between the Veteran's service-connected disabilities and his claimed conditions or considered all of the Veteran's presumed toxic exposure risk activities.
- Claimed conditions
- right hip disability, left hip disability, hypothyroidism
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 8, 2024
- Citation
- A24044936
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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.
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