Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection and effective dates due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error.
The deciding factor: The AOJ failed to obtain an adequate medical opinion regarding the nature and etiology of the Veteran's bilateral lower extremity radiculopathy, which constitutes a pre-decisional duty to assist error.
- Claimed conditions
- left lower extremity radiculopathy, right lower extremity radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 5, 2025
- Citation
- A25010436
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