The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient opinions regarding the etiology of the Veteran's lung nodules and whether they are related to service-connected disabilities or herbicide exposure. The AOJ is instructed to obtain addendum opinions from an appropriate examiner.
The deciding factor: The VA needs additional medical opinions to determine if the Veteran's lung nodules are due to his service-connected conditions or herbicide exposure, as well as how much they would have impacted him without his other health issues.
- Claimed conditions
- lung nodules
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 16, 2025
- Citation
- 25000614
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Decisions by this judge: 2,084 · Granted: 20% (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.
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