The Board remands the service connection claim for spongiotic dermatitis due to a duty to assist error, requiring VA to request complete private treatment records from Park Avenue Dermatology and Bernhardt Laboratories.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary to correct a duty to assist error by ensuring all potentially relevant evidence is obtained.
- Claimed conditions
- spongiotic dermatitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 28, 2025
- Citation
- A25018480
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 882 · Granted: 22% (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.
- Granted
The Veteran's spongiotic dermatitis with history of cutaneous t-cell lymphoma is rated at a 10 percent evaluation effective February 29, 2012.
- Granted
The Board granted the restoration of a 60 percent rating for spongiotic dermatitis, effective June 5, 2025, as the reduction was improper.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to a failure to obtain a TERA opinion for service connection of spongiotic dermatitis, and the need to evaluate whether the condition is related to toxic exposures in service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has granted service connection for eczematous dermatitis with urticaria, but has remanded the issue of service connection for a skin disability other than eczematous dermatitis with urticaria due to exposure to contaminants in water supply and hazardous fumes from gas, oils, and lubricants during service.
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