The Board has remanded the claim for a new retrospective medical opinion regarding the Veteran's service-connected epidermophytosis with rash on left hand due to inadequate compliance with previous remand instructions.
The deciding factor: The VA clinician did not address the directives of the April 2024 remand, including the need to acknowledge the Veteran's service-connected disability and lay statements related to the condition.
- Claimed conditions
- epidermophytosis with rash on left hand
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 2, 2025
- Citation
- 25000023
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,188 · Granted: 23% (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.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for a compensable rating for epidermophytosis with rash on left hand, as there was no evidence of characteristic lesions involving 5 percent or more of the entire body or exposed areas affected, and no intermittent systemic therapy required over the past 12 months.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for skin growths and a compensable rating for epidermophytosis with rash on his left hand, finding that there was no evidence to support these conditions were related to his military service.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an initial evaluation in excess of 10 percent for his service-connected coronary artery disease, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating based on the severity of his condition.
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