Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for entitlement to service connection for bilateral ankle disabilities due to insufficient efforts made by VA to obtain private treatment records.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary because VA did not make sufficient reasonable efforts to obtain identified private treatment records, and thus failed to fulfill its duty to assist.
- Claimed conditions
- right ankle disability, left ankle disability
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 17, 2025
- Citation
- 25003646
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