The Board remands the claims for service connection for left and right hand tremors due to a need for an adequate medical opinion.
The deciding factor: The July 2024 medical opinion was found inadequate, as it did not address whether the Veteran's service-connected hypertension or diabetes aggravated his tremors, nor did it provide an opinion on direct service connection. An addendum opinion is required.
- Claimed conditions
- left hand essential tremors, right hand essential tremors
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- November 12, 2025
- Citation
- A25098152
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,050 · Granted: 32% (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: Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for left hand and right hand essential tremors, as well as increased ratings for knee instability, degenerative arthritis of the spine, and degenerative arthritis of the right ankle. The appeal was denied for a left ankle disability.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for herpes (cold sores) and denied service connection for chronic sinusitis, a back disability, left knee pain, left shoulder disability, chronic fatigue syndrome, right lower extremity restless leg syndrome, left lower extremity sciatic radiculopathy, left and right hand essential tremors, seborrheic dermatitis, allergic rhinitis, migraine headaches, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), hemorrhoids, right upper extremity radiculopathy, erectile dysfunction, and an increased rating for a psychiatric condition.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for right and left hand essential tremors due to insufficient evidence addressing his toxic exposure risk activities as required by the PACT Act. A TERA specific examination is needed.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted the appellant's request to readjudicate his previously denied claims for service connection for asthma and bilateral hand essential tremors.,Both the claim for asthma and the claim for left hand essential tremors have been denied, while the right hand essential tremor claim remains in denial.
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