The Board remands the claim for service connection for episodic dizziness to ensure that the VA examination and opinions fully comply with previous remand directives.
The deciding factor: The June 2025 examination did not adequately address the in-service orthostatic hypotension, reconcile all relevant medical evidence, consider lay statements, or provide distinct rationales for secondary causation and aggravation by service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- episodic dizziness
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 23, 2025
- Citation
- 25013245
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,990 · Granted: 35% (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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