The Board has remanded the case for further examination and opinion regarding the Veteran's left Achilles tendon injury. The compensable disability rating claim for peripheral corneal scar, left eye remains denied.
The deciding factor: The decision is based on a lack of objective findings in the July 2015 C&P examination, necessitating an additional examination to assess whether the Veteran has a current disability and if so, its etiology.
- Claimed conditions
- Peripheral corneal scar, left eye, Left Achilles tendon injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 12, 2024
- Citation
- A24073554
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,500 · Granted: 29% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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.
- Granted
The Veteran's left Achilles tendon injury and related conditions are rated at 30 percent, effective from November 30, 2010. The rating for his back disability is denied.
- Denied
The veteran's claims for increased ratings and TDIU benefits were denied as his service-connected disabilities did not render him unable to secure or maintain substantially gainful employment.
- Granted
The Board has granted a 10 percent rating for the residuals of a left Achilles tendon injury, effective from when the initial grant of service connection was made.
- Denied
The veteran's low back disability is currently manifested by subjective complaints of pain and some limitation of range of motion, but no severe lumbosacral strain, severe limitation of low back motion, or severe intervertebral disc syndrome has been demonstrated. The RO assigned a 20 percent evaluation for the veteran's low back pain with limitation of motion.,The effective date for the assignment of a 30 percent evaluation for the residuals of a left Achilles tendon injury was granted to June 18, 1994, based on the date the veteran filed the reopened claim. The RO did not grant an earlier effective date as there is no medical evidence of an increase in the veteran's left Achilles tendon disability prior to that date.,The veteran underwent a surgical procedure for left Achilles tendinitis on September 20, 1995, and required one additional month of convalescence, to December 1, 1995. The RO granted an extension of the temporary total disability rating based on this surgery.
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