The Board remands the claim for an initial rating in excess of 10 percent for hypersomnia due to an inadequate VA examination.
The deciding factor: The April 2023 VA examination report was found inadequate as it did not address prior diagnoses and lay statements regarding sleep episodes, necessitating a new examination.
- Claimed conditions
- hypersomnia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 10, 2025
- Citation
- A25012196
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 913 · Granted: 41% (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.
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the appeal for service connection for hypersomnia due to the Veteran's withdrawal of her appeal. The appeals for cervico-occipital neuralgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, migraines, and a seizure disorder are remanded.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, hypersomnia, and migraine including migraine variants. The evidence established that these conditions had their onset during service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for hypersomnia, hypothyroidism, irritable bowel syndrome, and an acquired psychiatric disorder to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error by obtaining any outstanding private treatment records.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for hypersomnia as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected TBI and denied an increased rating for migraine headaches, a compensable rating for TBI, and remanded the issue of entitlement to TDIU.
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