The Board remands the claim for a left lower extremity nerve condition to obtain additional evidence and an adequate medical opinion.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary due to pre-decisional duty-to-assist errors, including failure to obtain an adequate medical opinion and outstanding private treatment records.
- Claimed conditions
- left lower extremity nerve condition
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 28, 2025
- Citation
- A25093119
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Decisions by this judge: 913 · Granted: 41% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for left and right lower extremity nerve conditions as there is no competent medical evidence of a current disability or functional impairment related to these conditions.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for sleep apnea, back pain, right lower extremity nerve condition, left lower extremity nerve condition, and left shoulder condition. The evidence did not support a finding that these conditions were related to service or secondary to a service-connected disability.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeals for service connection for erectile dysfunction, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), bilateral lower extremity nerve conditions, and sleep apnea prior to the Board's decision.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to a duty-to-assist error in the March 2024 VA opinion, which did not address whether the Veteran's left lower extremity radiculopathy is related to his service-connected TERA exposure. The claim will be returned for further review with an additional medical opinion.
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