The Board remands the claims for service connection and increased rating to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors, requiring additional medical examinations.
The deciding factor: Incomplete or inadequate medical opinions necessitate further examination to properly adjudicate the claims.
- Claimed conditions
- Diabetic retinopathy, Valvular heart disease with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and coronary artery disease with percutaneous coronary intervention
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 17, 2024
- Citation
- A24066796
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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