Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the case for further development, including obtaining missing community care records and scheduling an examination to determine if the Veteran's alcohol use disorder is secondary to his service-connected painful scars of the right hand.
The deciding factor: The AOJ failed to obtain relevant community care records and did not seek a medical opinion on the theory that the alcohol use disorder was a secondary complication of the service-connected disability, which are necessary for a proper adjudication of the claims.
- Claimed conditions
- painful scars of the right hand, alcohol use disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 19, 2025
- Citation
- A25100388
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