Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for a compensable rating for COPD with emphysema and service connection for ED, including as secondary to other trauma and stressor related disorder, due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
The deciding factor: The remand is necessary to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors, such as missing medical records and an inadequate VA examination opinion.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) with emphysema, Erectile Dysfunction (ED)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 11, 2025
- Citation
- A25012254
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