Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for a lumbar spine disability, right knee disability, left knee disability, cervical spine disability, and tinnitus as they require further development in the form of VA examinations.
The deciding factor: The AOJ did not schedule necessary VA examinations before denying the Veteran's service-connection claims, which constitutes a pre-decisional duty to assist error.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar spine disability (claimed as chronic back pain), right knee disability (claimed as chronic right knee pain), left knee disability (claimed as chronic left knee pain), cervical spine disability (claimed as chronic neck pain), tinnitus (claimed as chronic tinnitus)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 29, 2025
- Citation
- A25093568
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