The Board of Veterans' Appeals remands the claims for further action as required by a Joint Motion for Remand.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary to provide the Veteran with notice of his right to a hearing before VA issues notice of a decision on an initial or supplemental claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Peripheral neuropathy of the right lower extremity, femoral nerve, Peripheral neuropathy of the left lower extremity, femoral nerve, Peripheral neuropathy of the left lower extremity, external cutaneous nerve
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 10, 2025
- Citation
- A25097636
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 868 · Granted: 42% (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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to unclear overlap between service-connected diabetic neuropathy and nonservice-connected conditions, particularly lumbar radiculopathy.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for higher initial ratings for peripheral neuropathy of both sciatic and femoral nerves in his lower extremities, finding that the evidence did not support a moderate level of incomplete paralysis.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for earlier effective dates and higher initial ratings for peripheral neuropathy of both sciatic and femoral nerves in the right and left lower extremities, finding no factually ascertainable date of diagnosis or onset prior to specified dates.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded four cases involving peripheral neuropathy of the Veteran's upper and lower extremities due to additional significant evidence being submitted after a previous Supplemental Statement of the Case (SSOC).
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