The Board remands the claims for service connection for a psychiatric disorder, stomach condition, lumbar spine condition, right leg condition, and left leg condition to obtain additional evidence.
The deciding factor: The opinions provided by the previous examiners were found inadequate due to various reasons, necessitating new examinations.
- Claimed conditions
- Psychiatric disorder, diagnosed as unspecified depressive disorder, Stomach condition, to include diarrhea and constipation, Lumbar spine condition, to include scoliosis, Right leg condition, to include shin splints, Left leg condition, to include shin splints
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 15, 2024
- Citation
- A24065491
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.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for lumbar spine, right leg, and acquired psychiatric disorder due to lack of new and relevant evidence. Sarcoidosis and sarcoidosis arthritis were also denied as there was no medical evidence linking them to the Veteran's service.
- Partly granted
The Board grants the appeal for readjudicating the claim of service connection for a psychiatric disorder due to new and relevant evidence being received.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 70 percent initial evaluation for the Veteran's service-connected psychiatric disorder and TDIU, but remanded claims for service connection for diabetes, lumbar condition, cervical condition, lung condition, and left and right lower extremity neuropathy.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an initial rating of 20 percent for right lower extremity radiculopathy but denied a higher rating for the lumbar spine condition and remanded service connection for knee condition.
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